[PATCH] Schedule removal of arch/ppc

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jun 27 23:49:33 EST 2007


The arch/ppc tree has been in a semi-nebulous "bug fix only" state for a
few kernel releases now.  The patch below officially declares this as of
the 2.6.22 kernel release and schedules arch/ppc for removal in June of
2008.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-
index 7d3f205..170a32e 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -348,3 +348,15 @@ Who:  Tejun Heo <htejun at gmail.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
+What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories
+When: Jun 2008
+Why:  The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64
+      platforms.  Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining
+      arch/ppc platforms the the merged tree.  New submissions to the arch/ppc
+      tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will
+      remain in bug-fix only mode until it's scheduled removal.  Platforms
+      that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an
+      interested maintainer.
+Who:  linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
+
+---------------------------





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