Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

To: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>, PowerPC List Debian <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 09:52:29 +0200
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On 04/08/2018 09:50 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

Could someone shed some lights on POWER4 removal. I thought G5 were POWER4 ?

(see below)
...
  - Removal of POWER4 support, which was accidentally broken in 2016 and no one
    noticed, and blocked use of some modern instructions.
...


What the actual fuck?!?!

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