2.6.10-rc3 on PowerMac 8500/G3 - mostly OK(!)

From: John Mock
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 02:42:10 EST


'-rc3' fixed both long standing graphics bugs on an PowerMac 8500 with G3
upgrade, which is a major improvement. It corrects two bugs, one dating
back to 2.6.9-rc1 and the other, MUCH earlier than that, both affecting
framebuffer text consoles.

I haven't run it long enough to judge stability, but so far so good.

It has problems initializing a Gigafast WF741-UIC Wireless USB device.
But that device has had problems with vanilla i386 LINUX until 2.6.10-rc2
in any case. So i'm not surprised or concerned that it doesn't work here
yet. This is largely an FYI, as this hardware was purchased for a laptop
and was just put on the PPC for test purposes.

Thanks 'benh' (and whoever else worked on this), as this has been a long-
standing and frustration problem!
-- JM
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