On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:53:04PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Troy Benjegerdes writes: > > > > Have you tried running the 2.6.6 kernel-image packages on them? > > > > No, all of them have > 4GB of memory, and a 32 bit kernel is quite > > useless. Thus my strong interest in ppc64 gcc/glibc/etc ;) > > Fair enough :) > > Can you still give it at least a try? From 2.4 to 2.6, the > Debian/PowerPC kernel-image packages changed quite radically, and we > haven't had any reports on non-Apple machines so far. Not counting > Sven's Pegasos, of course. > > Regards, Jens.
Our environment at the lab is a netboot+nfsroot setup... Is there a reasonable way to make a debian kernel image nfsroot? You probably don't want to include every network driver needed in-kernel, and include nfsroot. What is the state of initramfs? Is it at all useable? The additional problem is I believe the pSeries firmware we have will only netboot a zImage.. it can't use yaboot, etc, which means the zImage would have to have a ramdisk image packed up with it. (FYI, pSeries is the new name for rs6000, iSeries is the name for the old AS400) Also, would it make more sense to have '-g5, -g5-smp, -pSeries-smp, -iSeries-smp' kernels instead of power3 and power4 non-smp variants? Are there any single-cpu power3/power4 machines? My other hesitation to use 2.6 ppc32 power3/power4 kernels is that I'm not aware of anyone at IBM actually maintaining the kernel source for a 32 bit kernel anymore.. all the work has gone to 64 bit kernels. Personally, I'd be happy with completely depracating the -power3 and -power4 kernels until we have a 64 bit biarch compiler package. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
