On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > not being an expert on the powerpc platform, can someone clarify the > differences between the above? the current situation is somewhat > confusing since there are only two subdirectories under arch/ -- > powerpc and ppc -- yet i see constant references to the "ppc64" > architecture. > > what is the current preferred usage? thanks. The 2 directories under 2.4 kernel ppc and ppc64 are being merged into arch/powerpc. Since this is a long process, arch/ppc is kept so far for legacy platforms, that have not yet being ported to arch/powerpc. arch/ppc is deprecated and will disappear some time in the future (there are patches being discussed currently on ppc lists to remove arch/ppc in 1 year from now). All new development is taking place under powerpc. Thanks Guennadi --------------------------------- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH Pascalstr. 28 D-52076 Aachen Germany -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
