# Re: \[RFC PATCH 7/8\] powerpc/purgatory: drop .machine specifier

- From: Michael Ellerman \<mpe@ellerman.id.au\>
- Date: 2021-03-19 10:59:55 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/03/9521560
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2021/02/9521054/t.md

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Nicholas Piggin [ref] writes:
> Excerpts from Segher Boessenkool's message of February 26, 2021 1:58 am:
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 02:10:05PM +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>>> It's ignored by future versions of llvm's integrated assembler (by not -11).
>>> I'm not sure what it does for us in gas.
>> 
>> It enables all insns that exist on 620 (the first 64-bit PowerPC CPU).
>
> Same question for this, why do we have it at all?

I sent a patch to drop it.

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20210315034159.315675-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au/

cheers
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