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Update squashfs and kernel to current versions.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:09:51 -0500
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1 Power PC, 32 bit
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3 Generic Power PC system, a basic unoptimized instruction set which
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4 just about any powerpc should be able to run.
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6 The main exceptions are the 440 and 880 lines, which were stripped down
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7 versions of the powerpc (created by IBM and Motorola, respectively) targetted
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8 at battery powered devices such as cell phones. They do not support the entire
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9 powerpc instruction set. (Alas, the two chose _different_ subsets, so they
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10 don't run each other's code either. The 880 is mostly dead today, but the
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11 440 is alive and well.)