[PATCH v5 01/13] powerpc: Remove Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support

Michal Simek michal.simek at xilinx.com
Wed Jun 17 00:45:20 AEST 2020



On 16. 06. 20 2:27, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 04:55:52PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> From: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
>>
>> The latest Xilinx design tools called ISE and EDK has been released in
>> October 2013. New tool doesn't support any PPC405/PPC440 new designs.
>> These platforms are no longer supported and tested.
>>
>> PowerPC 405/440 port is orphan from 2013 by
>> commit cdeb89943bfc ("MAINTAINERS: Fix incorrect status tag") and
>> commit 19624236cce1 ("MAINTAINERS: Update Grant's email address and maintainership")
>> that's why it is time to remove the support fot these platforms.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> 
> This patch causes qemu-system-ppc to fail to load ppc44x_defconfig:
> 
> $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux- O=out/ppc distclean ppc44x_defconfig zImage
> 
> $ timeout --foreground 30s unbuffer \
> qemu-system-ppc \
> -machine bamboo \

Did you bisect it that you found that this patch is causing problem for
you on any bamboo machine?

Or this was caused by the whole series?

Thanks,
Michal


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