powerpc: Kill ppcdebug

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:16, David Gibson wrote:
> The ancient ppcdebug/PPCDBG mechanism is now only used in two places.
> First, in the hash setup code, one of the bits allows the size of the
> hash table to be reduced by a factor of 8 - which would be better
> accomplished with a command line option for that purpose.  The other
> was a bunch of bus walking related messages in the iSeries code, which
> would seem to be insufficient reason to keep the mechanism.
>
> This patch removes the last traces of this mechanism.

I agree it's pretty ugly, but I thought the concept was at least nice, ie. 
runttime enablable debugging. The current scheme of having to #define DEBUG 
in a gazillion different files is pretty painful.

Oh well.

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