[RFC PATCH 01/10] powerpc/chrp: Remove CHRP support

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi,

On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 14:27 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > The Linux CHRP code only supports a handful of machines, all 32-bit, eg.
> > > IBM B50, bplan/Genesi Pegasos/Pegasos2, Total Impact briQ, and possibly
> > > some from Motorola? No Apple machines should be affected.
> > 
> > I have a Pegasos 2 and I planned on keeping it.
> 
> OK great. You're the first user we've heard from in quite a while :)

Well, as I said, you won't find the people using that hardware on the LKML
as most of these people aren't developers but just users.

> Any idea what is the latest kernel version you have run on it?

I don't remember. But I'm planning to test a current kernel in the near future.

There is just so much other stuff on my plate, including that debian-installer
regression on all PowerPC targets introduced by a recent change.

> > Have you asked among the Amiga community whether they plan on discarding
> > your hardware? I think it's always ill-fated to ask for popularity of
> > hardware on just the LKML. Most users are not on the LKML.
> 
> I haven't because I don't really know anything about the Amiga
> community, who they are, where they hang out, etc.
> 
> Please cross post this to any Amiga folks you know, or tell me where I
> should post it.

I will.

> We've maintained this code for over 20 years, at some point if there's
> no one in the *Linux community* who cares about it then it's hard to
> justify keeping it.

The problem is that you don't reach the whole Linux community over the
Linux PPC kernel development mailing list ;-).

Adrian

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