Subject: Re: [PATCH] raid6: altivec support

From: Kumar Gala <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:45:19 -0600

David,

We did talk about looking at using some work Ben did in ppc64 with OF=20
in ppc32.  John Masters was looking into this, but I havent heard much=20=

from him on it lately.

The firmware interface on the ppc32 embedded side is some what broken=20
in my mind.

- kumar

On Jan 19, 2005, at 1:43 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:11 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>  > We should probably "backport" that simplification to ppc32...
>
> Yeah.... I'm increasingly tempted to merge ppc32/ppc64 into one arch
>  like mips/parisc/s390. Or would that get vetoed on the basis that we
>  don't have all that horrid non-OF platform support in ppc64 yet, and
> we're still kidding ourselves that all those embedded vendors will
>  either not notice ppc64 or will use OF?
>
> --=20
> dwmw2
>
>
>
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