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Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:29:36 +1000 (AEST) From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au> To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] powerpc/32s: add an option to exclusively select powerpc 601 On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 15:52:13 UTC, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Powerpc 601 is rather old powerpc which as some important > limitations compared to other book3s/32 powerpcs: > - No Timebase. > - Common BATs for instruction and data. > - No execution protection in segment registers. > - No RI bit in MSR > - ... > > It is starting to be difficult and cumbersome to maintain > kernels that are compatible both with 601 and other 6xx cores. > > Create a compiletime option to exclusively select either powerpc 601 > or other 6xx. > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> Series applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f7a0bf7d904e902e13024986b7b357181ee30849 cheers
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