On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 18:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Hi Sven ! > > > > The current CDs won't boot a G5 with the -power4 option. The problem > > is that the kernel contains legacy drivers (8250 serial, etc...) that > > are fine for IBM POWER4 hardware, but will lockup a G5. You really need > > different kernel images for now. > > Sure seems to have lots of little patches to check the ppc subarch in > all those drivers. Any plan to get them into mainline while we're at > it.
Yah, that's an old story. I'll see if I can get those in. Ben.
