[PATCH V3] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2
Stewart Smith
stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Feb 8 18:19:22 AEDT 2016
Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc> writes:
> "p5ioc2 is used by approximately 2 machines in the world, and has never
> ever been a supported configuration."
>
> The code for p5ioc2 is essentially unused and complicates what is already
> a very complicated codebase. Its removal is essentially a "free win" in
> the effort to simplify the powernv PCI code.
>
> In addition, support for p5ioc2 has been dropped from skiboot. There's no
> reason to keep it around in the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
Yep, it's gone from firmware and there was only ever a handful of
machines inside development labs inside IBM that had it.
We may still have one in the lab, but I agree - it's not worth
maintaining it.
Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
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