Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/8] [POWERPC] 8xx cleanups

From: Jon Loeliger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:31:46 -0600

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> What impact do the have on boards in arch/ppc being able to build?
> 
> Byt the way what are the plans for powerpc?
> We have:
> arch/ppc
> arch/ppc64
> arch/powerpc
> 
> It was my understanding that arch/powerpc was supposed
> to be the future unified powerpc architecture but it
> does not even provide a defconfig.
> 
> And I do not see too much happening to do so - but that maybe
> because I looked at a wrong place.

You must have looked in the wrong place. :-)

arch/ppc is scheduled for removal from mainline in June.

arch/powerpc is under significant development, with lots
of defconfigs in arch/powerpc/configs.

arch/ppc64 is long dead.

jdl