Time to remove platforms/cell?

Geoff Levand geoff at infradead.org
Fri Sep 18 03:50:48 AEST 2015


On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 20:05 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> Right. I wouldn't bet money that the oprofile code still works, but spufs
> definitely would have to stay.

oprofile on PS3 needed additional patches [1] that I never
merged upstream, and no longer plan to, so oprofile support
should be removed.

If someone in the future needs oprofile it wouldn't be too
hard to get what is there now working again. 

[1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git/log/?h=ps3-queue-v3.7

-Geoff





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