Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] powerpc: Move CONFIG_PPC64 into CPU selection

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:35:29 +0200

>> * The only major difference between ppc64 and the others is the
>>   object format of the kernel binary.
>
> I disagree with that.  There are major differences at the
> implementation level for a lot of things.

It would be good to converge the 32- and 64-bit implementations,
and/or allow a single kernel image to work on both 32-bit and
64-bit systems,  The current situation is far removed from that,
so this patch is a bit premature in that aspect.

Segher