[OpenPower-Firmware] [PATCH v2] skiroot_defconfig: Remove obsolete drivers

Stewart Smith stewart at flamingspork.com
Thu Dec 10 03:54:47 AEDT 2020


On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, at 7:08 AM, Klaus Heinrich Kiwi wrote:
> Reduce the kernel size in a few dozens KBs by removing old or
> obsolete device drivers:
>    * Chelsio T3 and T4 and QLogic NetXtreme II iSCSI support - these
>      were probably added in error since we don't have iscsi userspace
>      even configured
>    * Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit, QLogic bnx2 & CNIC
>      support, Myricom Myri-10G & Neterion (Exar) Xframe 10Gb - these
>      are apparently never used or obsolete
>    * Solarflare NIC adapter support - not being used

doc/ should be updated, probably noting when the drivers were removed.


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