Re: LinuxAPUS on a Power Flyer?

[John L. <lor...@uk...>]

Hi there

On 08-Feb-02, Alan Buxey wrote:


> first the 'bad news', no, PowerFlyer isnt supported by the kernel.

:-(

> but now the 'good news'. Through a fortunate bit of hardware
> design, if you DONT INITIALISE the powerflyer the first channel
> (IDE0) appears just like the plain Gayle controller and we've
> got reports that it works okay by several users. 

Yep details in my other mail.

> ie boot from cold with no startup and you should be able to run a
> bootstrap command to boot into Linux.  Only be able to access the
> first two units though.

Better than nowt :-)

Regards
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