2.1. Before you install
According to http://gate.crashing.org/doc/ppc/doc003.htm[1], a port of the Linux kernel to the PowerPC architecture started in 1994 with Gary Thomas. Around 1997, various source code branches (Native Linux, MkLinux, Linux-pmac) merged to form the LinuxPPC developers release. From this release evolved the first commercial distributions from SuSE, Debian and Yellowdog. The kernel in these releases was a 32-bit kernel.
[1] Mark Hatle, based on posts to the LinuxPPC-users mailing list.
As described in http://penguinppc64.org/history.shtml, in 2002, IBM decided to create a port of the Linux kernel for ppc64 to run on the latest 64-bit PowerPC hardware. It is the evolution of this work that we are now using.
Following are two ...
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