Re: Support for PPC processors prior to POWER4 being dropped from kernel 3.17

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 05:37:59PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> On 13.08.14 16:11, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >On 13.08.2014 20:23, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>Does anybody know if this affects the Moto G[345] processors used in the Apple Macintosh machines?
> >>
> >>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc1Njk
> >Pretty sure that's just the usual lack of a clue on Phoronix, and that
> >only support for older IBM POWER CPUs is being dropped, not for any
> >PowerPC CPUs found in PowerMacs.
> >
> >
> Is the support also removed for the AMCC 440 and AMCC 460 CPUs? I
> hope not. There are a lot of people, who work with that machines.

I see nothing touching their files in the pull request.

And since they are 32bit powerpc chips, that isn't really surprising.

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Len Sorensen