ARCH=ppc or ARCH=powerpc

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 20:20 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Bizhan Gholikhamseh ((bgholikh)) wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > Sorry for asking this question again, I am still not clear on some  
> > of the issues.
> > Background:
> > We have developed a custom board based on Freescale reference  
> > board: MPC8555_CDS with MPC8541E processor running Linux 2.6.11 and  
> > uboot 1.1.2 version.
> >
> > I would like to update the Linux kernel to the latest available  
> > kernel 2.6.21.
> > Here are my questions:
> > 1- Should I use ARCH=ppc or ARCH=powerpc to build the kernel?
> 
> Move to ARCH=powerpc.
> 
> > 2- I have seen similar filenames under arch/ppc and arch/powerpc,  
> > which one applies to MPC8541E?
> 
> There is support for MPC8541e in both arch/ppc & arch/powerpc.

Why?  Shouldn't the arch/ppc support be killed if it's in arch/powerpc?

josh