[PATCH 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 8 09:32:52 AEST 2020


On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 15:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 16:30 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > I have no attachment to 40x, and I'd certainly be happy to have
> > > less
> > > code in the tree, we struggle to keep even the modern platforms
> > > well
> > > maintained.
> > > 
> > > At the same time I don't want to render anyone's hardware
> > > obsolete
> > > unnecessarily. But if there's really no one using 40x then we
> > > should
> > > remove it, it could well be broken already.
> > > 
> > > So I guess post a series to do the removal and we'll see if
> > > anyone
> > > speaks up.
> > 
> > We shouldn't remove 40x completely. Just remove the Xilinx 405
> > stuff.
> 
> Congratulations on becoming the 40x maintainer!

Didn't I give you my last 40x system ? :-) IBM still put 40x cores
inside POWER chips no ?

Cheers,
Ben.




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