Re: G5 support

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Olivier Thauvin wrote:

> Le Friday 30 January 2004 18:58, Sylvain OBEGI a écrit :
> > Hello!
> > It's been a long time since I've posted to this ml for the last time.
> > Looking at the archives, I couldn't find any mail talking about G5
> > support. Quite a bit strange IMO. Are people switching to Mac OS X or
> > something?
> > Anyway, has anyone found a way to install cooker-ppc on a G5 box?
> > Thanks in advance
>
> I am actually in charge of cooker-ppc and:
> - I don't have G5 myself, want to buy one, but it's expensive...
> - I don't have time to maintain cooker-ppc, starting ppc64 will not help.
>
> If one day I have one, I will install linux and make chroot to start mandrake
> ppc64... don't worry about this, but it is not my priority.

The regular 32-bit ppc kernel may not work on a g5 either, this can
apparently be fixed for 2.6.

see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107482583018520&w=2

(no idea if that already went into one of the main trees)

But how to install cooker/ppc with a 2.6 kernel I wouldn't know (:


    Christiaan