[Cbe-oss-dev] QS22 and Linux Distros

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 17 July 2009, gelliott wrote:
> Can anyone speculate as to why the Debian-based distributions are not 
> working?  Are there Cell-specific (or QS22-specific) kernel options that 
> must be enabled that may not be enabled in these distributions?  The 
> only other Cell platform I've worked on is the PS3.  Ubuntu worked just 
> fine there, though I was using the PS3-specific ISO (though I thought 
> the only difference here was in the ram disk).

Yes, I believe that it's just the kernel configuration of the installer.
When you get a Fedora running, it's fairly easy to do a debootstrap
to install an Ubuntu user space on another partition and use that
with your Fedora kernel or build your own kernel.

	Arnd <><