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["David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

Since I don't have convenient access to a powerpc new world or old
world I need some help figuring this stuff out.
All that is said is for the differences between the 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 kernels

http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Apparently powermac support from ARCH=ppc is gone (didn't know there
was one in the first place) and somehow there's now two arch's
available for Mac's powerpc and ppc and parts of the kernel won't
compile if you specify ARCH=ppc

So I'm faced with a dilemma, figure out how to make some sort of
abstract way to change specific arch specifications based on the
kernel version (as opposed to a random if statement that will get
forgotten about in the future) or say to heck with passing kernel arch
to the kernel anymore and allow users to use some of the options
available in the spell to pass it themselves and in other cases let
the kernel source figure out the arch itself.

I think the latter would perferable simply because I can't think of a
nice way to make the other way work.

- David Brown