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I want to know the difference between architecture and platform in linuxLinux kernel. when iWhen I had downloaded the latest kernel tarballtarball, observed that a directory named with arch, it contains different names of processors & inside to any one processor directory again there is a directory called platform.

For example:-

/arch/powerpc/arch/powerpc is a directory under arch in linuxLinux kernel &

/arch/powerpc/platforms /arch/powerpc/platforms is a directory under powerpcpowerpc.

so actuallySo, what does this actually mean? can any one

Can anyone explain this in detail, referring from hardware perspective to software perspective., please?

I want to know the difference between architecture and platform in linux kernel. when i had downloaded the latest kernel tarball, observed that a directory named with arch, it contains different names of processors & inside to any one processor directory again there is a directory called platform.

For example:-

/arch/powerpc is a directory under arch in linux kernel &

/arch/powerpc/platforms is a directory under powerpc.

so actually what does this mean? can any one explain this in detail, referring from hardware perspective to software perspective.

I want to know the difference between architecture and platform in Linux kernel. When I had downloaded the latest kernel tarball, observed that a directory named with arch, it contains different names of processors & inside to any one processor directory again there is a directory called platform.

For example:-

/arch/powerpc is a directory under arch in Linux kernel & /arch/powerpc/platforms is a directory under powerpc.

So, what does this actually mean?

Can anyone explain this in detail, referring from hardware perspective to software perspective, please?