[PATCH V2] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jan 15 12:40:23 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>
> ---
> V2: Remove pointless union and rebase on -next
>
> Tested on a P7IOC machine and a PHB3 machine.
>
> Skiboot p5ioc2 removal patch:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/544898/

Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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