[RFC] Remove G2_LE core decl from CLASSIC_PPC part of arch/ppc/kernel/cputable.c

Andrey Volkov avolkov at varma-el.com
Sat Aug 28 01:16:42 EST 2004


Hello Dan,

Friday, August 27, 2004, 7:00:59 PM, you wrote:

>> Since G2_LE is NOT a "classic" core ( in particular - true
>> little-endian),

> How is it not a classic core?  It certainly isn't bookE, and it isn't
> 8xx.
> No one should care about little-endian anyway.  I'm voting for the
> first candidate that makes that illegal. :-)
Agree.

>> With that move we'll conserve some memory of kernel,

> How does this single change save anything but a few bytes of
> cpu table?

Maybe ~2K of rubbish for somebody "few" - for me not :) (don't forget
its embedded platform).

>> but need some explanations which PPCs based on
>> it, for modify Kconfig ( I know MPC52xx and MPC82xx based on it).

> What other kernel changes would you make based on
> this configuration?
Only Kconfig, nothing more.

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Best regards,
 Andrey Volkov


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