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It's doubtful IBM would drop that support, the PowerPC AS set is required to run the 'i' a.k.a. OS/400 operating system. The original series of processors that
by sillywalk 3y ago
It's doubtful IBM would drop that support, the PowerPC AS set is required to run the 'i' a.k.a. OS/400 operating system. The original series of processors that implemented PowerPC AS were called RS64. IBM merged this with the POWER (RS/6000) series. All POWER processors since the POWER4 have the tagging instructions.
It would be nice if IBM would document them, so Linux and/or AIX could use them.