From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:37:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:18120 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024010AbXFKNhj (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:37:39 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5BDZQqF009055; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:35:51 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l5BDZK49009042; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:35:20 +0100 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:35:20 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Franck Bui-Huu , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Remove MIPS SEAD support Message-ID: <20070611133520.GB6824@linux-mips.org> References: <11815673353523-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> <11815673362011-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com> <007b01c7ac2c$caa073c0$10eca8c0@grendel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007b01c7ac2c$caa073c0$10eca8c0@grendel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 15371 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:31:16PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > > Mips Sead support is deprecated and scheduled for removal > > > since September 2006. > > > > Oh, is it? The last time I tried it worked. Have you tried it and > > failed to build? That should be easy to fix. > > There aren't that many SEAD users out there, but then again, no > replacement platform for SEAD has been announced, so I'm not > wildly enthusiastic about deleting support for it, if it still works. It's relativly trivial to keep alive - like all the others in this series. Actuall the Atlas is probably the most problematic due to its heart, the amazingly broken SAA9730 which I think I've also never seen docs beyond a useless leaflet for. Ralf