From: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
To: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>,
bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: bdc: Remove the BDC PCI driver
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:30:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s8qwkgz.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210115213142.35003-1-alcooperx@gmail.com>
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Hi,
Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com> writes:
> The BDC PCI driver was only used for design verification with
> an PCI/FPGA board. The board no longer exists and is not in use
> anywhere. All instances of this core now exist as a memory mapped
> device on the platform bus.
>
> NOTE: This only removes the PCI driver and does not remove the
> platform driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
It sounds like it could be used for pre-silicon verification of newer
Core Releases, much like Synopsys still uses the HAPS (with mainline
linux, mind you) for silicon validation.
Why would we delete this small shim if it *could* still be useful?
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balbi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-18 11:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 21:31 [PATCH] usb: bdc: Remove the BDC PCI driver Al Cooper
2021-01-15 23:15 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-01-18 11:30 ` Felipe Balbi [this message]
2021-01-18 11:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-18 12:22 ` Felipe Balbi
2021-01-18 12:54 ` Patrik Jakobsson
2021-01-18 17:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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