RFC: proposed arch/powerpc directory structure

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Fri Aug 12 12:09:44 EST 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:59 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:45:10AM -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 	platforms/
> > 		- platform-specific code laid out in the following 
> > 		directories:
> > 		pSeries/
> > 		iSeries/
> > 		pmac/  (both 32 and 64-bit)
> > 		classic32/  (platforms containing 
> > 		6xx/7xx/74xx/8240/8241/8245)
> > 		classic64/  (Maple?)
> 
> I'm a bit ppc64-ignorant, but isn't 'pSeries' just a regular
> OpenFirmware-containing ppc64 box (like Maple) ?  How about just 9xx/
> for all of the ppc64's that have a 9xx in them (Maple), that aren't pmac
> (which is a class of its own).

I myself am also pretty ppc64 ignorant, but I do know that not all
pSeries are 9xx based.  There are POWER 4 and POWER 5 pSeries boxes too.

josh




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