[V3] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Thu Feb 18 10:45:25 AEDT 2016


On 02/17/2016 11:41 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-02 at 04:08:20 UTC, Russell Currey wrote:
>> "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>
>> Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2de50e9674fc4ca3c6174b0447


WOW! Nice :( I am using one, every day, even for HV KVM sometime. Thanks, 
folks.


-- 
Alexey


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