On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Al Dunsmuir <al.dunsmuir@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. There was no change of the config in regards to page sizes. Peter > 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
