From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D112C681BB for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:21:47 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:12:35 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc Message-ID: <20060114181235.GA25578@lst.de> References: <17352.57423.119068.737164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <17352.57423.119068.737164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> 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, 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.