Re: Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
> of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
> in using 64k pages.
>
> Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to run the ppc64el
> port anyway.
Only power8 and newer can run ppc64el, so all power 5, 6 and 7 users
would still need to run be. But there are probably a lot less than of
G5 users. And most people with work loads that have a use for 64k pages
are probably on newer machines too.
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Len Sorensen
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