[Cbe-oss-dev] Closing down cbe-oss-dev list?

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

CC geoff

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:40 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:25 PM Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been doing some mailing-list cleanup, and had a peek through the
> > archives of cbe-oss-dev. It looks like we've only had a couple of
> > threads happen over the last 5 years (one last May, and the previous in
> > December 2015).
> >
> > So, I'd suggest that it may be time to close down this list. We can
> > still use the linuxppc-dev list if anything comes up, which is
> > referenced in the kernel MAINTAINERS list:
>
> Sounds good to me. Adding Geoff to Cc though, as far as I can
> tell he's the only one left from those days that occasionally does
> something related.
>
> >    CELL BROADBAND ENGINE ARCHITECTURE
> >    M:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> >    L:   linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > S:      Supported
> > W:      http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
> > F:      arch/powerpc/include/asm/cell*.h
> > F:      arch/powerpc/include/asm/spu*.h
> > F:      arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/spu*.h
> > F:      arch/powerpc/oprofile/*cell*
> > F:      arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/
> >
> > SPU FILE SYSTEM
> > M:      Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>
> > L:      linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > S:      Supported
> > W:      http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
> > F:      Documentation/filesystems/spufs/spufs.rst
> > F:      arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/
> >
> > Any objections?
>
> That developerworks website is dead, so that should
> be removed as well.
>
> We could also consider dropping CONFIG_PPC_CELL_NATIVE
> along with all related options, and merge the rest of platforms/cell
> with platforms/ps3 in either of those places. It's been 15 years
> since the code got merged and 12 years since we stopped
> working on it, so I assume all users of the blades have moved on
> long ago, and if there are still embedded users of CAB or other
> machines, they presumably stopped updating their kernels
> not long after the distros ended their support.
>
>       Arnd
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