Straight from the 'source'. I think my Professor will be pleased to know this as well.
Excellent and thank you. Steve M On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:59:29 -0700, YhLu wrote > Welcome. > > You can get the source code from freebios2. It includes S2885 support. > > Regards > > YH > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Milo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 5:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PPC and K8 Thunder 2885 support. > > Hello all my name is Steve and I'm a Linux guy. > > I lurked a little (maybe for two days) but I want to try to jump in ASAP. > > I downloaded the mailing list archives and found the 'HOW DO I' FAQ > which is pretty helpful. I want to maybe clarify a few things for > my understanding but a little background about me would probably be > in order. > > I dont have hardware level programming experience, most of what I > know about computers I learned through reading. I like to think I'm > a bit discriminating about what I learn, but I would be wrong about > that. Learning is usually, at least for me, a stumble around, trip > over facts and fiction, tediously seperate the wheat from the chaff, > chew on the facts on my walk home, kind of process. > > I am currently a student at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn New York > and I am fortunate enough to work with a professor who is giving me > the very generous opportunity to setup a small cluster consisting of > a few dual Opteron 2885 machines. This opportunity comes to me > because I am trying to start a GPL'ish software club here. > > Also, I own a PowerBook G4 and I run YDL 3.0.1 on it. > This is the lspci output: > > 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon > Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] > 01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 PCI > 01:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03) > 01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB > 01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB > 01:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller > (rev 02) > 06:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 Internal PCI > 06:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323 > > 06:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun > GEM) > (rev 01) > > The kernel is a 2.6.6 which appears to work well. > > Considering the purpose of this list my questions are probably fairly > obvious. > Is there support for the 2885 motherboards? > > And is there support for the PPC platform. I had seen some posts regarding > PPC support and there is apparently someone here who runs YDL as well. > > But I havent seen anything outright as far as support for both > platforms I mentioned. Or perhaps to put it correctly, are the > platforms I mentioned supported. What are the real dangerous > pitfalls I should lookout for? As in the kind of pitfall that would > render my machine a unique doorstop, would I would like to avoid > that at all costs. > > Thank you, > Steve M > > -- > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
