On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:01 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are 32 bits free now. One can anticipate that reassigning a bit > > would come up only after these are exhausted. With prudent use, this > > will take a very long time to happen. Then the oldest CPU type string > > might be retired to reuse its bit. It seems unlikely that there will > > be a single installation (root directory) that really needs to have > > installed both a kernel optimized for the oldest CPU model known and a > > kernel optimized for the newest CPU model known. > > The kernel does not have to come from the same place as the root > filesystem. You may want to run a new kernel with an old filesystem, or > vice-versa.
I agree, I'm pretty dubious here... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
