Issues with the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Oct 17 03:46:54 AEDT 2022


On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> make oldconfig has asked because of the CPU family. I choosed GENERIC for my P.A. Semi PWRficient PA6T-1682M. Is this correct? Maybe this is the problem.
> 
> config GENERIC_CPU
> -	bool "Generic (POWER4 and above)"
> +	bool "Generic (POWER5 and PowerPC 970 and above)"
>  	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>  	select PPC_64S_HASH_MMU
> 
> There isn’t a POWER4 anymore and I used it via CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y before.

PA6T is ISA 2.04, just like POWER5+.  It should be fine.


Segher


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