On Friday, June 26, 2015, 5:40:02 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > If you don't care about powerpc you can stop reading :-) > If you do.... I went to do what I thought was a basic fix up to the > kernel builds on POWER to get rid of the last bits of the ppc32 > legacy, on my list for some time, and it has become more of a slightly > epic slash and burn! > The resulting output kernel configs are for all intents and purpose > unchanged but the git diff is some what epic. > The top level of the changes are: > Core changes that apply too all kernels (ppc64/ppc64p7/ppc64le) reside > in config-powerpc64-generic config-powerpc64 ->> legacy platforms that are older than POWER7 and > their dependencies (here lies the ghosts of PowerPC G5 and friends). > config-powerpc64le and config-powerpc64p7 contain anything specific to > POWER7 and newer that might affect older platforms, or LE/BE specific > to p7 and later I saw a recent post by Peter Saisanas on the debian powerPC list that warns that the nouveau video driver is not compatible with 64KB pages. https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/06/msg00054.html If you plan to set up the config-powerpc64le and config-powerpc64p7 with 64K pages, please leave config-powerpc64 as 4KB. One has about an equal chance of encountering ATI and Vidia graphics on Mac PPC64 machines. I know nothing about the recent P8 boxes. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
