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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by mrpippy on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:36PM (#24741716)
The 601 had support for some POWER instructions that weren’t part of the PPC ISA and weren’t supported by later chips, I know Apple’s developer notes for these machines mentioned that you had to avoid those.
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