From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:20:52 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20050929092052.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1127865914.6102.0.camel@gaston>
On 28-Sep-2005 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 18:30 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig writes:
>>
>> > What about just dropping POWER3/4 support in 32bit mode?
>>
>> Yes... I'm getting very close to deciding to do that. In fact POWER3
>> isn't too bad, since it still has BATs, but POWER4/PPC970 would be
>> tricky.
>>
>> Does anyone on these lists have any major objections if we drop
>> support for 32-bit kernels on POWER3 and POWER4/PPC970?
>
> I've stopped supporting G5 on 32 bits kernel for some time now, I have
> absolutely no problem just dropping the POWER4 support in 32 bits kernel
> in the merged tree.
Out of curiosity, is there any advantage in using a 32 bits
kernel on ppc64 over a 64 bits kernel ? Speed ? Complexity ?
Compatibility ? Memory ?
--
Giuliano.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-29 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-27 0:25 Starting the arch/powerpc merge Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 3:39 ` Kumar Gala
2005-09-27 5:38 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-09-27 9:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 8:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-27 8:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 9:16 ` Heikki Lindholm
2005-09-27 9:26 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-09-27 9:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-27 9:51 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2005-09-28 0:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-09-29 7:20 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2005-10-06 23:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-20 23:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-21 7:19 ` Giuliano Pochini
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-27 15:43 Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-27 16:43 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-27 17:29 ` Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-28 0:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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