From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17726.39780.732843.150044@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:01:56 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Matt Sealey Subject: Re: [PATCH] General CHRP/MPC5K2 Platform and drivers support - to comment In-Reply-To: <453E34FB.3030209@genesi-usa.com> References: <453771E5.4090808@bplan-gmbh.de> <77AD49CA-69CB-4ADA-B8F3-3BC3A066BCF9@kernel.crashing.org> <453884F5.4000804@bplan-gmbh.de> <122A4E06-B8A6-4256-B96E-3811EA93EA25@kernel.crashing.org> <453B6A84.3050209@bplan-gmbh.de> <1161585371.10524.444.camel@localhost.localdomain> <453CD615.4050401@genesi-usa.com> <17725.18623.768768.438157@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <453E34FB.3030209@genesi-usa.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Matt Sealey writes: > http://www.power.org/news/articles/new_brand/#isa > > I'm talking about the one they consolidated from all the different specs > Freescale, AMCC and IBM had about what makes a PowerPC processor. Since > POWER is part of it and it's all Power.org now.. they seem to have changed > the name. So, are you proposing we drop support for all the PowerPC processors that don't conform to the recently-published V2.03 ISA? You don't want 6xx, 7xx, 7xxx, 52xx, etc. supported any more? :) (joke :) Seriously, the v2.03 ISA covers only IBM's latest POWER processors (i.e. not POWER3, POWER4, or even POWER5), and Book E processors. We support a lot more than that. Paul.