[RFC/PATCH] Change 440GP platform to ppc440

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 24 07:58:57 EST 2007


On Apr 20, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Kumar Gala writes:
>
>> I don't see any reason the 440GP should its own platform.  Posting  
>> this to
>> see if anyone thinks otherwise.
>
> I recall dimly that there was some user-visible difference between the
> 440GP and the other 440 processors, and that's why we made the
> platform string different.  I don't recall what the difference was.

The 440GP seems to be a book-e userspace w/o FP.  Not sure how it  
differs from other 440's.  It seems like the 440EP are the only ones  
with FPUs.

- k



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