From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:39:41 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Cort Dougan , linuxppc-commit@fsmlabs.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: CPU features again Message-ID: <20010418093941.C13403@opus.bloom.county> References: <20010418160328.15973@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from geert@linux-m68k.org on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Those feature bits have to be common accross the entire PPC range (and > > possibly common with ppc64 too since ppc64 is supposed to run ppc32 > > binaries, except that ppc64 has 32 more bits to stuff it's own features > > for 64 bits binaries). > > BTW, we don't take the sparc64/mips64 approach and create arch/ppc64/? > Sparc64/mips64 run 32-bit binaries as well. That's a 2.5 planned thing, I believe. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/