On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 22:27 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Marvin writes: > > > will this be the end of life for all the PReP's ? I remember a patch posted > > some month ago, but didn't heard anything since then. Any news? Or just let > > it die quietly? > > No, I'm still planning on getting PReP support over to arch/powerpc, > but getting time to work on it has been the difficulty. > > What sort of PReP do you have?
I have a 43P-140, which I bought on eBay a few weeks ago to add to the Fedora testing pile. Foolishly I was trying to get the CHRP kernel booting on it, just because it says 'chrp' in its device_type. Unfortunately I seem to have killed it -- I tried to update its firmware from TIG97251 to TIG04204 and although the update looked successful, it never came back. Says 'F2A' on the diagnostic panel. I renamed the firmware file on the floppy to 'precover.img' as the documentation suggests, but it never even looks at the floppy drive when it starts up. Anyone know if the firmware flash on these can be removed and flashed externally, or have any better suggestions? -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
