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
Nope, the iseries are the boxes previously named as/400, if i remember well, and are not supported by ppc32. Furthermore the pseries have a further power4 optimization option which makes the kernel not run on power3, so i guess we will still want to ship two flavours on them. Basically it would go as follows : powerpc -> ppc32 version for 601 to g4. pserie -> generic pserie pserie-power4 -> power4 optimized pserie g5 -> same as above, but pmac g5 stuff iserie -> iserie kernel And naturally a smp and up version of those, except maybe for the iserie, i don't think there is a UP version of this one. Friendly, Sven Luther
