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

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:11:48 -0600
"Grant Likely" <grant.likely at secretlab.ca> wrote:

> 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.

Excellent.  My prompting has succeeded.  Though now I won't get to be
on top of the "top contributors" list in the lwn.net pages like Kumar
was.  Oh well.

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

Please.  Pretty please?

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

josh