Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?

[Brian Durant]

On 12. feb 2006, at 3.15, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:34 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
>> from his e-mails on debian-
>> powerpc at lists.debian.org, benh at kernel.crashing.org seems to think
>> that they have the problem more or less sussed (for my G5 tower
>> anyway), yet there doesn't seem to be a kernel update for Breezy yet
>> and Dapper still has the same problem with thermal control
>
> What kernel version were these fixed in?
>
> Lee

Here is the response I received. A little vague, but the only one I got:

On 22. jan 2006, at 23.02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Oh, ok.. you mean the fans going full speed ? That's a matter of  
> thermal
> control not working on the machine. It's the single CPU G5 names
> PowerMac9,1 in /proc/device-tree/model right ?
>
> It should indeed work with recent kernels.

Cheers,

Brian