Issues with the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1

[Christian Zigotzky]

No, it’s not fine. We used the POWER4 CPU config before.

— Christian

> On 16. Oct 2022, at 18:51, Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> 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