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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:41:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Prevent sn2 ptc code from executing on all ia64 subarches
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"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> writes:

> That looks like a plausible direction to investigate.  Does anyone know
> whether any other architectures have a similar problem that can be solved
> in this way?  Or is ia64 the only one with a "generic" kernel that has to
> work on such a diverse spread of machines?

PPC has CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM, and use ppc_md much like ia64 uses
ia64_mv.

Andreas.

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