Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262337AbTKILD5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 06:03:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262353AbTKILD5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 06:03:57 -0500 Received: from mel1.uecomm.net.au ([203.94.129.130]:46473 "EHLO mel1.unite.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262337AbTKILDz (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 06:03:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Re:No backlight control on PowerBook G4 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Daniel Egger Cc: Dustin Lang , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <1068371734.797.506.camel@sonja> References: <1067820334.692.38.camel@gaston> <1067878624.7695.15.camel@sonja> <1067896476.692.36.camel@gaston> <1067976347.945.4.camel@sonja> <1068078504.692.175.camel@gaston> <1068198639.796.109.camel@sonja> <1068346792.673.25.camel@gaston> <1068371734.797.506.camel@sonja> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1068375805.6805.9.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:03:25 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 37 On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:55, Daniel Egger wrote: > 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? The new one. > > 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. It's fairly simple to "fix" yaboot to handle >4Mb images actually, just change the size in of_fs.c Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/