4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Fri Jun 6 01:11:48 EST 2008


On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> This commit (patch omitted due to size) is sitting in my local tree:
>
> commit 0d7efc1e80fc262bcc507a605482c5681e3f082a
> Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Thu Jun 5 09:46:17 2008 -0500
>
>    ppc/4xx: Remove 4xx support from arch/ppc
>
>    Remove support for PPC 403, 405, and 440 processors from arch/ppc.  The
>    arch/powerpc equivalents should be used.  Boards that are not ported yet
>    will need to be ported to arch/powerpc to have continued support.

This looks like unneeded churn.

Paulus, Can we just kill all of arch/ppc for .27 right now?

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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