Re: POWER Port

[Cort Dougan]

} Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
} By author:    "Sarah Nordstrom" <[e-mail]>
} In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
} > 
} > Just wanted to let anyone who was interested in the POWER port, that
} > i've pretty much let it drop, due to a lack of documentation
} > available.  Everyone had told me that, but i wanted to see what i
} > could do.  The documentation is just plain not available for any
} > opensource project at this time, and it doesn't look like IBM's
} > planning on making it so, as it's a dead platform really.
} > 
} 
} I thought IBM was doing a POWER-4 port internally?

Power4 and Power3 are different creatures from the original Power
architecture (the one Sarah was referring to).  The Power[34] are far more
PowerPC-like and not a gothic nightmare of twisted logic like the Power.