Re: [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 22:28 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

This patch makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP
with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support.
It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently.
Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of
ARCH=ppc.

Any reason not to remove CHRP too ?

This patch doesn't actually remove all the powermac files under
arch/ppc, but they could go.

OK, we can do that in a second step.

This means, BTW, that it will no longer be possible to build 32-bit
kernels for Apple G5 machines.  Also, miboot users (are there any
still?) are out of luck until I move the miboot stuff over to
arch/powerpc/boot.

32 bits kernel on g5 were unuspported for ages and I announced the death
of that support long enough in advance. miboot works with plain vmlinux,
the only thing those miboot images are useful for is if you need a
compressed image due to lack of space and/or if you need an embedded
initrd. Hopefully, that should be trivial to add back though.

Ben.