Hi, > even a small start would be helping me get better RS/6000 support in > ybin, since the boot-floppies completely rely on ybin to make > yaboot systems bootable.
I have debian running on a number of RS6000s. Ignoring the install, all that is required (on POWER3 machines) is to fix libc to understand the large cacheline size. At the moment I am unpacking the deb, binary editing it and repacking it (a trick paulus showed me). Longer term Benh has patches to export the cacheline size from the kernel to libc which will fix the problem. Hopefully we can get something into the boot-floppies libc to handle this (alternatively just get rid of the dcbf in memset(, 0, 0)) Anton