Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Re:No backlight control on PowerBook G4 | From | Daniel Egger <> | Date | Sun, 09 Nov 2003 10:55:34 +0100 |
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Am Son, den 09.11.2003 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt um 03:59:
> > Still cannot try this because your kernel wouldn't even survive yaboot.
> Can you give details ? It should work just fine, except if I broke > something in the past few days when getting G5 support in, but I didn't > have any other report of this, so...
The report on the chrp image is all I have right now because every other image will result in a hang right after downloading the kernel via tftp.
Which of the two radeon drivers should I use anyway?
> Well, you are not supposed to use the zImage.chrp on a PowerMac, > and definitely not from yaboot.
With the Linus kernel it's the only one that works.
> Last I tried, then just netbooting vmlinux.elf-pmac worked fine > on all the "newworld" models I have here). For yaboot, you need > to load a plain vmlinux binary.
Yes, but the image is too big for yaboot. I'll have to patch it first.
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