From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB2D6893D for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:56:25 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Paul Mackerras In-Reply-To: <17352.57423.119068.737164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <17352.57423.119068.737164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:56:16 +1100 Message-Id: <1137272177.4855.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 22:28 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > This patch makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP > with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support. > It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently. > Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of > ARCH=ppc. Any reason not to remove CHRP too ? > This patch doesn't actually remove all the powermac files under > arch/ppc, but they could go. OK, we can do that in a second step. > 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. 32 bits kernel on g5 were unuspported for ages and I announced the death of that support long enough in advance. miboot works with plain vmlinux, the only thing those miboot images are useful for is if you need a compressed image due to lack of space and/or if you need an embedded initrd. Hopefully, that should be trivial to add back though. Ben.