XServe G5 and Linux ?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:36, Harald Welte wrote:

> I see.  It's just that the XServe G5 is sold cheaper than the XServe G4
> (at least the dealers have a lower price).  That's why I somehow feel
> reluctand of buying an old machine.

Well, I don't quite recommend G4s in general any more ;)

> Also, I can positively confirm that we've had a G5 XServe at the 20C3
> (CCC Chaos Communication Congress) at the end of december.  It was used
> to relay the A/V streams of the lecture halls into the congress network.

Strange... I'm quite sure they are only due to shipping about now.

> So either the CCC has received an unreleased machine, or they are
> already sold.
>
> > > 1) Does anybody have experience running linux on the current G5
> > > Xserve?
> >
> > I expect the kernel to mostly work, +/- minor adaptations that should
> > be fairly trivial hopefully, except maybe for the thermal control.
> > But then it depends what they changed of the chipset. The above is
> > assuming the chipset is just the new northbridge rev and same IO chip.
>
> mh. Unfortunately you're in .au now.  This means I cannot just buy one
> of them and ship it to you for getting that initial work done.
> Shipping, Taxes, Customs Offices, ... would definitely over-complicate
> everything.

Right, on the other hands, there are chances that it just work :) And I
will probably get access to one soon anyway.


Ben.


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