Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

2018-04-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 09:50:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi G5 users, > > Could someone shed some lights on POWER4 removal. I thought G5 were POWER4 ? > > (see below) > ... > - Removal of POWER4 support, which was accidentally broken in 2016 and no one >noticed, and blocked use

Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

2018-04-08 Thread Matti Palmström
On 2018-04-08 10:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: From what I have gained now, PPC970 is apparently maintained in a separate directory, so PowerPC Macintoshes should be fine. Not sure about the Freescale stuff at the moment. Reading on github

Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

2018-04-08 Thread Matti Palmström
On 2018-04-08 10:07, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: From what I have gained now, PPC970 is apparently maintained in a separate directory, so PowerPC Macintoshes should be fine. Not sure about the Freescale stuff at the moment. We need to wait for the reply from Michael Ellermann. Are the

Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

2018-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2018 10:03 AM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: I don’t understand it either. Adrian, could you please explain what happened? We are using POWER4 support for our P.A. Semi Nemo boards. From what I have gained now, PPC970 is apparently maintained in a separate directory, so PowerPC

Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

2018-04-08 Thread Christian Zigotzky
I don’t understand it either. Adrian, could you please explain what happened? We are using POWER4 support for our P.A. Semi Nemo boards. Thanks Christian Sent from my iPhone > On 8. Apr 2018, at 09:52, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > >> On 04/08/2018 09:50

Re: Removal of POWER4 support, (was: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-4.17-1 tag)

2018-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2018 09:50 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Could someone shed some lights on POWER4 removal. I thought G5 were POWER4 ? (see below) ... - Removal of POWER4 support, which was accidentally broken in 2016 and no one noticed, and blocked use of some modern instructions. ... What the