From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Change 440GP platform to ppc440
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:01:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070424000153.GD23995@crusty.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CE31BB28-E702-4425-A266-9D5D143A53DC@kernel.crashing.org>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:58:57PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Apr 20, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> > Kumar Gala writes:
> >
> >> I don't see any reason the 440GP should its own platform. Posting
> >> this to
> >> see if anyone thinks otherwise.
> >
> > I recall dimly that there was some user-visible difference between the
> > 440GP and the other 440 processors, and that's why we made the
> > platform string different. I don't recall what the difference was.
>
> The 440GP seems to be a book-e userspace w/o FP. Not sure how it
> differs from other 440's. It seems like the 440EP are the only ones
> with FPUs.
Right. I don't recall ever distinguishing 440GP from any other 440 chip
without an FPU.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-23 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 21:16 [RFC/PATCH] Change 440GP platform to ppc440 Kumar Gala
2007-04-19 21:43 ` Josh Boyer
2007-04-20 0:02 ` David Gibson
2007-04-21 0:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-23 21:58 ` Kumar Gala
2007-04-24 0:01 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2007-04-24 0:12 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-24 5:46 ` Stefan Roese
2007-05-02 3:38 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-02 14:06 ` What defines a cpu table platform? (was Re: Change 440GP platform to ppc440) Kumar Gala
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