[PATCH 2/15] powerpc, celleb: Basic supports for Celleb

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Dec 14 18:37:17 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 16:37 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if it's a good idea to claim CHRP compatibility
> > > here. Is that a workaround for a specific incompatibility? Normally,
> > > I'd say you should print "machine\t\t: BEAT %s\n" or
> > > "machine\t\t: Celleb %s\n", since you are definitely not running
> > > a CHRP compatible firmware.
> > 
> > This is placed only to "trick" Anaconda into installing Fedora Core Linux.
> > Fedora refuses to be installed into 'unknown' system.
> 
> David, can you do some serious LART'ing of whoever is responsible for
> this in anaconda ? Is there at least an option somebody can pass on the
> commmand line to make it work on unknown platforms ?

Define 'work'. I believe it ends up doing _different_ things according
to the machine type -- in particular the selection of the bootloader
setup. You want to treat all unknown machines as CHRP? Paul, can we do
that?

When does the Fedora team get a Celleb machine for compatibility
testing, btw?

-- 
dwmw2




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