On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > btw, do we really need the power3 vs power4 split? I know the ppc64 > > folks only need split kernels for iseries vs pseries and g5, > > I thought PPC_ISERIES and PPC_PSERIES were the ppc64 equivalent of > ppc's CONFIG_POWER3 and CONFIG_POWER4, respectively.
nope, iseries = ex-AS/400. very strange hypervisor, not coded directly to the hardware. pseries = ex-RS/6000. Both support hardware from the old RS64 to the power5, the pseries kernel also supports the G5. > Anyway, I know > for sure that the power3 flavour doesn't run on the one power4 machine > I have access to (namely yorick, the 2x2 G5 used for building the > Debian kernels). Hmm, in arch/ppc/ PPC_PMAC64 indeed depends on POWER4 while in ppc64 it doesn't. Ben, is that intentional?
