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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:48:32 -0800
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: send-pr categories & FreeBSD/powerpc or -ppc
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:06:55PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >And I was going to say the opposite.  FWIW, it's called
> >ppc in the Linux source tree.  And since IBM persists in


PPC is our Parallel Port Chipset driver.  Calling the platform 'ppc' will
make one hell of an ambiguity mess.

There is nothing wrong with the platform being called 'powerpc'.  Send a
request to Postmaster to create a freebsd-powerpc aliases, or rename the
mailing list and put in a freebsd-ppc alias; and please go find something
real to complain about.

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