2005-01-28
A couple of new walkthroughs available
I installed Debian Sarge on my 140 pretty successfully the other day and
I took a few screenshots during the install with a mind to producing a
basic walkthrough of the process. I haven't finished my walkthough yet
but I realised with horror that I hadn't put up two superb walkthroughs
I received from Edmund R. MacKenty, several months ago. So, with the
greatest apologies to Ed, you can now view these walkthroughs on the
walkthroughs page. They are for:
2004-09-16
lsresidual tool available for download
Residual data is provided by the firmware to give the operating
system useful information about that machine it is running on.
I suppose it is an earlier version of the OpenFirmware device
tree. There is a utility called lsresidual that displays information
from the residual data. I've added a few features to this utility
for my own needs. So, here is my own version of the
tool to list PReP residual data.
2004-09-15
Are you subscribed to linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org?
It seems that the machine running the above mailing list has had an
extended outage. In the meantime some kind souls have set up a new
mailing list to replace it. If you are interested in PPC development
(including RS/6000 PReP machines!), then subscribe to this new
PPC
development mailing list.
2004-06-27
The new F30 has arrived
My new 7025-F30 just arrived and worked booted first time! The only
problems are that rebooting and powering off do not work.
2004-06-16
New kernels available for download
I have just uploaded a 2.6.7 kernel. This kernel should work on the
following machines:
- 7043-140 (confirmed)
- 7043-240
- 7024-E20 (confirmed)
- 7024-E30 (confirmed)
- 7025-F30 (now confirmed)
- 7025-F40 (not working - still investigating)
- 7248-100
- 7248-133 (confirmed)
If you have problems running this kernel on any of the above machines, or
manage to get it running on a machine not listed, please post a message
to my
mailing list.
I've just bought an F30 so I should be able to confirm it's working
shortly.
2003-08-27
New kernels available for download
I have just uploaded a 2.4.22 kernel. This kernel should work on the
following machines:
- 7043-140
- 7043-240
- 7024-E20
- 7024-E30
- 7025-F30
- 7025-F40
- 7248-100
- 7248-133
If you have problems running this kernel on any of the above machines, or
manage to get it running on a machine not listed, please post a message
to my
mailing list.
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