Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
From: Heikki Lindholm <hidden>
Date: 2005-09-27 09:16:12
From: Heikki Lindholm <hidden>
Date: 2005-09-27 09:16:12
Paul Mackerras kirjoitti:
Christoph Hellwig writes:quoted
What about just dropping POWER3/4 support in 32bit mode?Yes... I'm getting very close to deciding to do that. In fact POWER3 isn't too bad, since it still has BATs, but POWER4/PPC970 would be tricky. Does anyone on these lists have any major objections if we drop support for 32-bit kernels on POWER3 and POWER4/PPC970?
I think it was Kumar Gala who already asked this a while ago. For me, 32-bit kernel on a 970 has been useful "initial stage" of gradually porting kernel stuff over to real 64-bit, but if I'm the only user and keeping the support is a nuisance, go ahead and drop it. -- Heikki Lindholm