Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K

From	lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.ports.powerpc, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#826796: Request for a new: linux-image-powerpc64-4K
Date	2020-06-05 15:20 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:37:02AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
> of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
> in using 64k pages.
> 
> Anyone with a large modern POWER machine is going to run the ppc64el
> port anyway.

Only power8 and newer can run ppc64el, so all power 5, 6 and 7 users
would still need to run be.  But there are probably a lot less than of
G5 users.  And most people with work loads that have a use for 64k pages
are probably on newer machines too.

-- 
Len Sorensen

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