[RFC/PATCH] Change 440GP platform to ppc440

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed May 2 13:38:29 EST 2007


On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:46 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 02:12, Roland Dreier wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> FWIW, I've run the same userspace (binaries) on 405GPr, 440GP and
>> 440SPe without any problems.  Not that I'm a 4xx expert by any
>> stretch, but I don't know of anything special about the 440GP.
>
> I don't know of any differences either. So I'm voting to change the  
> platform
> to ppc440 too.

After some discussion with Paul we think we figured out why 440GP was  
marked differently.  I doesn't implement 'isel', and all other 440's do.

- k



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