Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support

David Woodhouse writes:

Yeah.... I'm increasingly tempted to merge ppc32/ppc64 into one arch
like mips/parisc/s390. Or would that get vetoed on the basis that we
don't have all that horrid non-OF platform support in ppc64 yet, and
we're still kidding ourselves that all those embedded vendors will
either not notice ppc64 or will use OF?

I'm going to insist that every new ppc64 platform supplies a device
tree.  They don't have to have OF but they do need to have the booter
or wrapper supply a flattened device tree (which is just a few kB of
binary data as far as the booter/wrapper is concerned).  It doesn't
have to include all the 

As for merging ppc32 and ppc64, I think it would end up an awful ifdef
mess, but if you can see a clean way to do it, send me a patch. :)

Paul.