On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:44:31PM -0700, Michael wrote:
Since I am starting to compile my own kernel, and you said "you should
really be using 64bit kernels" does that mean that I should compile a
64-bit kernel on my ppc? I have the Dual 450's can they even support
64bits?
Oh well ...
no idea aboutyour dual 450's, but 64bit enabled desktop powerpc cpus are :
IBM power3/power4/power5 based cpus.
PPC970 aka G5 cpus.
I believe these are found only in IBM rs6k power3 and beyond lines, pservers,
iservers, blade thingies and so on, and for apple in the powermac G5, Xserver
G5 and Imac G5.
I don't think the Dual 450 falls into this category, but i may be wrong ? My
guess is that this is a dual 450MHz G4 powermac, right ? These are 32bit and
use the plain powerpc subarch, but you should use the powerpc-smp one.
And no, there should not be any sane reason for you compiling your own
kernels, please don't do it :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther