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From: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom•gr>
To: Heikki Lindholm <holindho@cs•helsinki.fi>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:26:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4339104E.7050705@intracom.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43390DDC.7090701@cs.helsinki.fi>

Heikki Lindholm wrote:
> Paul Mackerras kirjoitti:
> 
>> 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 think it was Kumar Gala who already asked this a while ago. For me, 
> 32-bit kernel on a 970 has been useful "initial stage" of gradually 
> porting kernel stuff over to real 64-bit, but if I'm the only user and 
> keeping the support is a nuisance, go ahead and drop it.
> 
> -- Heikki Lindholm

Count me in too; using a 970 in 32 bit mode, because of gentoo X.org
problems in 64 bit mode.

Regards

Pantelis

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27  9:26 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 [this message]
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
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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