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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.

Tux on my 7043-140