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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:10:42 +0100
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RHEL4.5 PPC FEATURE 200527: RHBZ# 199695: Linux on Power
	Support for eClipz

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:27 -0400, Janice M. Girouard wrote:
> 
> Includes base kernel support for the new eClipz HW. This is the initial 
> launch of the next generation powerpc processor.  Base support will enable 
> new HW and Software features available with the new processor type. 
> Initial GA of HW is scheduled for 2/07.

An extra patch from Paulus to add to that.... we can't use
cache-inhibited 64KiB pages on POWER6, because the HCA (Infiniband)
adapter needs to map 4KiB regions into userspace -- and because it isn't
clear that the hypervisor supports 64KiB CI pages at all anyway.

-- 
dwmw2

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