Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200)

Gary Thomas gdt at linuxppc.org
Fri Jan 22 18:54:41 EST 1999



On 22-Jan-99 Cort Dougan wrote:
> 
> The changes are not minor.  I'm going to hold off for a while.
> 

What about the fixes for the PS/2 mouse?  These are not large, but
significant for systems that need to intialize the mouse from scratch.

> arch/ppc/boot needs to be redone anyway so until that happens (which
> should happen soon) I think it best to wait.  
> 
> My current thinking is that there will be a arch/ppc/prepboot for prep and
> a arch/ppc/8xxboot for the 8xx processor systems (mbx, rpx lite and so
> on).  prepboot will likely be based on Gabriels prepboot code.  Those are
> just my rough ideas right now so they're subject to change.  Anyone have
> suggestions or opinions about that?
> 
> }I suspose it is too late to get this in the real 2.2.0 release?
> 

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