DIPC for PowerPC

Tom Rini trini at disparity.net
Wed Jul 28 06:42:11 EST 1999


On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Kamran Karimi wrote:

> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> > I tried it on the weekend.  I had to make a couple of small changes to
> > get the kernel to compile: asm-ppc/ipc.h didn't define DIPC, and PPC
> > systems (at least the vast majority of the systems that Linux will run
> > on) are 32-bit, not 64-bit.  I have appended below the diffs for
> > include/asm-ppc (ipc.h and dipc.h).
> 
>  Thanks. I'll incorporate your changes ASAP. Is there a way to determine 
> at kernel compile time whether the machine is 32 bit or 64 bit?

It's called CONFIG_PPC64 right now I think..

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