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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:06:37 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> Ok, that may be why it was removed from ppc then, I should ask Paul.

I think this might have more to do with the fact that they
got tired locally patching their tree all the time.  It required
changes to generic code which they could never get merged
upstream.