ARCH=ppc or ARCH=powerpc

[Kumar Gala]

On Sep 15, 2006, at 6:23 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:06 -0700, Shawn Jin wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>>> The goal is to have the new 4xx arch/powerpc support not break 4xx
>>> arch/ppc support. So as boards are merged and verified working,
>>> we'll remove the equivalent support from arch/ppc...
>>>
>>> Some boards/chips may just die if no maintainer step up to port
>>> them over...but all the important stuff should get an interested
>>> party once we get the initial 4xx support in arch/powerpc working.
>>
>> When can we expect this done? I have a 440 based SoC project ongoing
>> and am thinking when I should start moving to arch/powerpc.
>
> There is no set date or kernel release where this will be done.  In
> other words "when it gets done, it gets done". :)

There is some push for putting a date one year from now as when arch/ 
ppc will go away.

- k