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Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel



On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> There is some confusion here, there are currently only 4 kernel images,
> in both normal and smp flavor, powerpc for all powerpc processors from
> early 601 to the latest g4, power3 for the ibm power3 boxes, and
> power4/g5 for the power4/ppc970 processors on ibm/apple g5 boxes.

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, and each
of the kernels supports from the very first RS64 over power3 to power4,
and I'd be really wondering if ppc32 is different.



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