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

Michal Simek michal.simek at xilinx.com
Fri May 22 00:58:17 AEST 2020


On 21. 05. 20 15:53, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:
>> Le 21/05/2020 à 09:02, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>>> Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> writes:
>>>> +On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:04 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 15:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>>>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>>>>>> IBM still put 40x cores inside POWER chips no ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh yeah that's true. I guess most folks don't know that, or that they
>>>>> run RHEL on them.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a reason for not having those dts files in mainline then?
>>>> If nothing else, it would document what machines are still being
>>>> used with future kernels.
>>>
>>> Sorry that part was a joke :D  Those chips don't run Linux.
>>>
>>
>> Nice to know :)
>>
>> What's the plan then, do we still want to keep 40x in the kernel ?
> 
> I guess we keep it for now.
> 
> Perhaps we mark it BROKEN for a few releases and see if anyone
> complains?

I would like to get at least that xilinx patch to the tree to unblock
our changes on interrupt controller.

Thanks,
Michal



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