From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <3749CC04.146B318D@eos.ncsu.edu> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:42:15 +0200 To: Scott Sams , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: AWACS Bug Message-Id: <19990525124215.002323@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, May 24, 1999, Scott Sams wrote: >Paul Mackerras wrote: > >> What's happening is I think the same as what happens on the iMac: when >> you run the BootX app to boot linux, and it asks macos to shut down, >> macos shuts down the awacs, in such a fashion that the only thing that >> will start it up again is a hard reset. :-( I do have a fix for that but this fix is still not tested and not in BootX. I'll try to find some time to finish sometimes this week. (The fix is a hack: I patch the MacOS burgundy driver to prevent the shutdown. Also this works only with versions of the driver that do export their function names thru the TOC, which may not be the case of future versions). -- Perso. e-mail: Work e-mail: BenH. Web : [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]