RFC: proposed arch/powerpc directory structure
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Fri Aug 12 13:49:22 EST 2005
Tom Rini writes:
> I'm a bit ppc64-ignorant, but isn't 'pSeries' just a regular
> OpenFirmware-containing ppc64 box (like Maple) ? How about just 9xx/
Ummm, no, not exactly. The distinctive thing about pSeries is the
hypervisor interfaces. And in fact most pSeries boxes aren't
970-based, rather POWER4/4+/5. If you want to generalize, we could
call the directory "papr" (for Power Architecture Platform
Requirements, the name of the document that describes the pSeries
platforms) rather than pSeries, but I suspect that would just confuse
people. :)
Paul.
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