Re: Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K
On 6/5/20 3:03 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> 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.
Is POWER5 still supported by the Linux kernel? I thought IBM removed a
bunch of older machines but kept PowerPC 970 support.
Adrian
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