Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are 32 bits free now. One can anticipate that reassigning a bit > would come up only after these are exhausted. With prudent use, this > will take a very long time to happen. Then the oldest CPU type string > might be retired to reuse its bit. It seems unlikely that there will > be a single installation (root directory) that really needs to have > installed both a kernel optimized for the oldest CPU model known and a > kernel optimized for the newest CPU model known.
The kernel does not have to come from the same place as the root filesystem. You may want to run a new kernel with an old filesystem, or vice-versa. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
