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

To: Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>
Cc: PowerPC List Debian <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Support for PPC processors prior to POWER4 being dropped from kernel 3.17
From: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:11:47 +0900
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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.

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