From: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:31:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060114193158.GA5818@pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17352.57423.119068.737164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:28:15PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 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.
If nothing else, miboot is used to make install floppies for oldworld
boxes for the Debian installer. I doubt very many people are using it
for normal boot, but this is the simplest way to boot from a floppy
disk on oldworld models.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-14 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-14 11:28 [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc Paul Mackerras
2006-01-14 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-14 19:31 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
2006-01-14 20:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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