From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:19:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpqfwtxh.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454904500-11218-1-git-send-email-ruscur@russell.cc>
Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> writes:
> "p5ioc2 is used by approximately 2 machines in the world, and has never
> ever been a supported configuration."
>
> The code for p5ioc2 is essentially unused and complicates what is already
> a very complicated codebase. Its removal is essentially a "free win" in
> the effort to simplify the powernv PCI code.
>
> In addition, support for p5ioc2 has been dropped from skiboot. There's no
> reason to keep it around in the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Yep, it's gone from firmware and there was only ever a handful of
machines inside development labs inside IBM that had it.
We may still have one in the lab, but I agree - it's not worth
maintaining it.
Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
--
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 4:08 [PATCH V3] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2 Russell Currey
2016-02-08 5:05 ` Gavin Shan
2016-02-08 7:19 ` Stewart Smith [this message]
2016-02-17 12:41 ` [V3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-02-17 23:45 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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