On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:42:12AM -0700, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Hi, > > > even a small start would be helping me get better RS/6000 support in > > ybin, since the boot-floppies completely rely on ybin to make > > yaboot systems bootable. > > I have debian running on a number of RS6000s. Ignoring the install, > all that is required (on POWER3 machines) is to fix libc to understand > the large cacheline size. At the moment I am unpacking the deb, binary > editing it and repacking it (a trick paulus showed me). Longer term > Benh has patches to export the cacheline size from the kernel to libc > which will fix the problem.
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