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

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jun 6 04:59:44 EST 2008


On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:

> 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.

defconfig updates is the secret :)

- k



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