From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
To: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:26:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4339104E.7050705@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43390DDC.7090701@cs.helsinki.fi>
Heikki Lindholm wrote:
> Paul Mackerras kirjoitti:
>
>> Christoph Hellwig writes:
>>
>>
>>> 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
Count me in too; using a 970 in 32 bit mode, because of gentoo X.org
problems in 64 bit mode.
Regards
Pantelis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-27 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-27 0:25 Starting the arch/powerpc merge Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 3:39 ` Kumar Gala
2005-09-27 5:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-09-27 9:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 8:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-27 8:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 9:16 ` Heikki Lindholm
2005-09-27 9:26 ` Pantelis Antoniou [this message]
2005-09-27 9:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 9:51 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-09-28 0:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-29 7:20 ` Giuliano Pochini
2005-10-06 23:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-20 23:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-21 7:19 ` Giuliano Pochini
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-27 15:43 Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-27 16:43 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-27 17:29 ` Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-28 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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