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

Johnnie Peters jpeters at phx.mcd.mot.com
Sat Jan 23 02:17:24 EST 1999


I find that this also would be a great plus as they are needed for
the Utahs.

Johnnie


Gary Thomas wrote:

> 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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