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* The only major difference between ppc64 and the others is the
object format of the kernel binary.
I disagree with that. There are major differences at the
implementation level for a lot of things.
It would be good to converge the 32- and 64-bit implementations,
and/or allow a single kernel image to work on both 32-bit and
64-bit systems, The current situation is far removed from that,
so this patch is a bit premature in that aspect.
Segher