From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757959AbZD3TnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752649AbZD3TnH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:43:07 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:61154 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750981AbZD3TnE (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:43:04 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: "mark skuse" Subject: Re: difference between ppc and powerpc branches.... Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:42:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20090430172803.A3EC41BF3DA@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20090430172803.A3EC41BF3DA@ws1-10.us4.outblaze.com> X-Face: I@=L^?./?$U,EK.)V[4*>`zSqm0>65YtkOe>TFD'!aw?7OVv#~5xd\s,[~w]-J!)|%=]>=?utf-8?q?+=0A=09=7EohchhkRGW=3F=7C6=5FqTmkd=5Ft=3FLZC=23Q-=60=2E=60Y=2Ea=5E?= =?utf-8?q?3zb?=) =?utf-8?q?+U-JVN=5DWT=25cw=23=5BYo0=267C=26bL12wWGlZi=0A=09=7EJ=3B=5Cwg?= =?utf-8?q?=3B3zRnz?=,J"CT_)=\H'1/{?SR7GDu?WIopm.HaBG=QYj"NZD_[zrM\Gip^U MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904302142.57124.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/7uz3CZaNQsKFYjTd41EBiRn24v8UYOrormsJ u+rK4eZ2olZAFcqyI5u0qAEPWSBi5ILmYh4oNvs1xv+0g3Jn5k e2It3RkOjS+aED1DuGiHA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 30 April 2009, mark skuse wrote: > Sorry if this is a stupid question.. but could someone please > give a brief description of the difference between the ppc and > powerpc branches? Spent a fair amount of time (not enough?) > digging around but couldn't really find a clear answer... Very easy: ppc was the old name for the now discontinued 32-bit PowerPC architecture, powerpc is the name for the merged 32 and 64 bit PowerPC architectures. All recent kernel versions only have powerpc, and no active development had gone into the ppc tree for a few years before. The only reason for keeping ppc around was that some platforms had not yet been ported to powerpc. Arnd <><