Subject: Re: Support for new Dual G4 1 Gig machines?
From: Jeramy B. Smith (jeramy@penguinppc.org)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 13:57:24 MST
I belive the largest problem is the 7450 chips themselves. The original
revision 7450 chips have their own enyclopedia britannica sized errata
manual. SMP with some of them is tricky. Ben should be the one who is the
expert on that though.
The ATI 7500 should work fine if you use XF4.2. I believe Dan Burcaw is
rolling some rpms as I type this message.
Good luck and let us know how it works.
-jeramy
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Kevin B.Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have not been keeping up wih the latest processor and driver support in
> the kernels or on the status and stability of dual processor boxes.
>
> But I just ordered a brand new Dual 1 GHZ G4 machine from Apple with an
> ATI 7500 video card (I also have an ATI Radeon Mac PCI card).
>
> So can anyone update date me if the version of the G4 in the latest Apple
> machines is supported?
>
> How stable is SMP support under PPC Linux?
>
> I know I can get the ATI Radeon 32M Mac edition card to work to work with
> my FlatPanel under ppc linux, but I have no idea about the ATI 7500 and
> the FlatPanel display?
>
> Any information on required patches or kernel version to make this thing
> work when it comes would be greatly appreciated. I will have the use of
> my old machine to rebuiold kernels and things for about a week after the
> new machine arrives (before it become's my wife's new machine) and would
> like to get everything I can built in advance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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