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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:14PM (#24741147)
Didn’t PowerPC have some unique extensions that distinguishes it from the the POWER CPUs?
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by wmf on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:23PM (#24741200)
Yeah, but Power3 and onward actually implement the PowerPC ISA so the differences are smaller than they appear.
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