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Re: Re: Final Call: RC1 about to go out the door ...

Dominic J. Eidson <sauron@the-infinite.org>

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From: "Dominic J. Eidson" <sauron@the-infinite.org>
To: lockhart@fourpalms.org
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-21T01:42:22Z
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > > >> Linux/PPC       (LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 distro tested here; 2.2.18 kernel I think)
> > > > What processor? Tatsuo had tested on a 603...
> > > It's a Powerbook G3 (FireWire model), but I'm not sure which chip is
> > > inside (and Apple's spec sheet isn't too helpful)...
> > From what I can tell (which isn't much ;) Apple at least calls the
> > processor a "G3". Which accounts for why we can't find another
> > designation.
> 
> Tatsuo, I have a separate listing for "mklinux" for the 7.0 release. Is
> that distro still valid and unique? Or is there a better way to
> represent the PPC options under Linux?

mklinux is older Motorola 68k-based systems
LinuxPPC is the newer powerPC-based systems


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