From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:12:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060114181235.GA25578@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17352.57423.119068.737164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:28:15PM +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.
>
> This patch doesn't actually remove all the powermac files under
> arch/ppc, but they could go.
>
> 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.
Can we please make arch/powerpc the defaul for native builds with uname
== ppc now that all interesting workstation class machines are supported
better by arch/powerpc? Else this patch will be rather painfull for
those building their own kernels.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-14 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-14 11:28 [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc Paul Mackerras
2006-01-14 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-01-14 19:31 ` Brad Boyer
2006-01-14 20:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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