Time to remove platforms/cell?

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Sep 21 19:42:42 AEST 2015


On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 13:15 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 17 September 2015 12:28:13 Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2015, 19:45:38 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
> > > On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 10:43 +0200, Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > > > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2015, 15:28:47 schrieb Michael Ellerman:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Having said all that, this email was mainly a fishing expedition to see if
> > > anyone still cares about Cell support at all. It sounds like you at least
> > > are running mainline kernels on PS3?
> > 
> > well, I like to but I couldn't get the kernel booting for some reason. Still 
> > trying. Beside this, I have nothing against dropping the other cell systems, 
> > but I'm only a "fun user", so my vote probably isn't counting 
> 
> No, your vote counts at least as much as a commercial user, because
> "fun users" are more likely to contribute back patches when something
> breaks.

Yep. I'm quite happy for us to try and maintain support indefinitely if folks
are still using the systems, and especially if they're able to report the odd
breakage that happens.

cheers




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