On 7/5/2026 03:30, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't have any G5s anymore, but the ones I did have used the other
windfarm drivers so I never hit this.
You might be the last person on earth booting Linux on those :)
Not really, Sean (Action Retro) did this thing and follow-ups on
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank
Including installing a contemporary graphics card:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPDd1Y0flSg
Nice.
But the driver you enabled, PM72, is for PowerMac7,2, which is 2-3 years
older, and does not have PCI-E.
So if you have one of those it's even more special.
> This likely means he inspired a whole bunch of geeks to
> go and do the same. :)
Hopefully one of them volunteers to be powermac maintainer ;)
cheers
