[PATCH v2 01/25] powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.ibm.com
Sun Mar 2 15:40:43 AEDT 2025


On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:54:49 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> IBM Cell Blades used the Cell processor and the "blade" server form
> factor. They were sold as models QS20, QS21 & QS22 from roughly 2006 to
> 2012 [1]. They were used in a few supercomputers (eg. Roadrunner) that
> have since been dismantled, and were not that widely used otherwise.
> 
> Until recently I still had a working QS22, which meant I was able to
> keep the platform support working, but unfortunately that machine has
> now died.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[01/25] powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/05bf59fbeef3438c916a6bd3f16fc2839e9f2160
[02/25] powerpc: Remove some Cell leftovers
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8e4f1a3495c2f22ad01bb4c925950d680bbbe5aa
[03/25] powerpc: Remove PPC_PMI and driver
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/38efe5a9a7a78fceef1d189900210855a155ebc6
[04/25] powerpc: Remove IBM_CELL_BLADE & SPIDER_NET references
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/de9d1be44e5060bf0ce43ad2069908c802d7aa5e
[05/25] powerpc/cell: Remove CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/11923e0d9d958b8349e6099ebd3cad7733ffa35f
[06/25] powerpc/xmon: Remove SPU debug and disassembly
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/41cc49efffd73d44be7c6c104a50754c11b957bd
[07/25] powerpc: Remove DCR_MMIO and the DCR generic layer
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/bd4a83428bbd297745a5708ab66377709c4adb46
[08/25] powerpc: Remove PPC_OF_PLATFORM_PCI
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f026dffd548f8a516e9d00623a454ee5d9349ed6
[09/25] powerpc/io: Remove PPC_IO_WORKAROUNDS
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/478e1709ad8a2a418f724a1dfa815bfa9eafcfc9
[10/25] powerpc/io: Remove PPC_INDIRECT_MMIO
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6584845b3d8b860d846e80c4cf5453a6058d67f9
[11/25] powerpc/io: Remove PCI_FIX_ADDR
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/de9cc05822bf39a8ad0236857298d856fd497616
[12/25] powerpc/io: Unhook MMIO accessors
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/15efd61fa74d23d055075f90101b0e1345799cec
[13/25] powerpc/io: Remove unnecessary indirection
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/41c8992c02a58cd5294546d98391dd542bea2d68
[14/25] powerpc/io: Wrap port calculation in a macro
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8a55941aed70196c1868280b76385709aff9b844
[15/25] powerpc/io: Spell-out PCI_IO_ADDR
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/c051451b7ad1db27ac9f8672822c29db2ceb97b4
[16/25] powerpc/io: Use generic raw accessors
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/0305292f17bc1f4fc66a24a8dd1a5e047673c02d
[17/25] powerpc/io: Rename _insw_ns() etc.
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/76c7d4300d99fbf7f81190c2cec794ff85e1770d
[18/25] powerpc/io: Use standard barrier macros in io.c
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1b52e091e7f1422a5b285c68606c307cfdf2b674
[19/25] powerpc: Remove UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b78e0bff85919729a1bff96b4f2517e79eb6063b
[20/25] docs: Remove reference to removed CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/215bd64ada73a476a7bcb7d8fd27b02adc319f5b
[21/25] genirq: Remove IRQ_EDGE_EOI_HANDLER
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/333e8eb3e0817b41582d93982babe39e8599835c
[22/25] cpufreq: ppc_cbe: Remove powerpc Cell driver
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/16479389cfeb8031e81e3d4fecf98aaa2724386d
[24/25] net: spider_net: Remove powerpc Cell driver
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/d9fefcea813e565ccfd0259db570a00aa719046c
[25/25] net: toshiba: Remove reference to PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
        https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/5722915493acaaae05850d48efc742fc6f5373d8

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