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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:30:41 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17209.817.732159.375607@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050927082324.GA11437@lst.de>

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?

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27  8:30 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 [this message]
2005-09-27  9:16     ` Heikki Lindholm
2005-09-27  9:26       ` Pantelis Antoniou
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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