Re: PATCH [0/14] sparc32: removal of sun4c platform support

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Hi Sam,

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi David et al.
>>
>> This opens up some exciting possibilities, for example we
>> can also ditch Cypress sun4m support and therefore eliminate
>> the software integer multiply/divide stuff and thus build
>> the kernel with -mcpu=v8 or similar.
>
> According to this wikipedia article:
>
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation
>
> Then Cypres is only used in:
>
> o SPARCstation 2

I feel duty bound to point out that we've already eliminated support
for that box as it's sun4c.

Which leaves only these boxes which can take the Cypress CPUs:

> o SPARCserver 6xxMP

Thanks,

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