[Skiboot] [PATCH] Remove POWER7 and POWER7+ support
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
svaidy at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jun 4 18:34:03 AEST 2019
* Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.ibm.com> [2019-06-03 15:38:34]:
> It's been a good long while since either OPAL POWER7 user touched a
> machine, and even longer since they'd have been okay using an old
> version rather than tracking master.
>
> There's also been no testing of OPAL on POWER7 systems for an awfully
> long time, so it's pretty safe to assume that it's very much bitrotted.
hmm... So can we document the last working OPAL version for a P7?
I agree that we can remove support because it is not being actively
tested and maintained. :(
However we should document what version/stable branch should be run on
a P7 to keep the machine working/useful.
--Vaidy
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