[RFC/PATCH] Change 440GP platform to ppc440

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Apr 24 10:01:54 EST 2007


On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:58:57PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> 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.

Right.  I don't recall ever distinguishing 440GP from any other 440 chip
without an FPU.

josh



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