[RFC] Drop Non-smp PowerPC Kernel Flavor

Adam Conrad adconrad at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 19 02:35:24 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 05:06:28PM -0500, Patrick Kevin McCaffrey wrote:
> 
> I guess if you HAD to get rid of one, I'd argue for the 64 bit one.  As I
> stated, only the G5's can use the 64 bit kernel...

We support a lot more than just Apple hardware (where do people get this
impression from?) and dropping the 64-bit kernel would be dropping support
for a host of POWER5 and above systems.

... Adam




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