[RFC][PATCH 1/2] remove mpc83xx support from arch/ppc

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 4 04:42:08 EST 2006


On Oct 3, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Jon Loeliger wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:34, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Kim Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> remove 83xx support from arch/ppc.  Tested multiple arch/defconfig
>>> build combinations ok.  AFAICT, everything 83xx works in arch/
>>> powerpc, and new derivatives are being added only to arch/powerpc,
>>> so it's better not to keep this around.
>>
>> NACK!! we need the cuImage stuff working and in the tree before I'm
>> ok with this.  We have to be able to boot from a non-flat-dev  
>> aware u-
>> boot before I'll be ok with removing 83xx from arch/ppc.
>>
>> - kumar
>
> Any idea when those patches are going to be in?

Not sure, I wasn't sure if there were changes required to the patches  
for all the flat dev tree code going into the tree.

- k



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