Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 21:35:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2rftrx7.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12db51d6-d848-118e-5ec1-a4172bd47aa4@xilinx.com>

Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> writes:
> On 01. 04. 20 4:07, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com> writes:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> recently we wanted to update xilinx intc driver and we found that function
>>> which we wanted to remove is still wired by ancient Xilinx PowerPC
>>> platforms. Here is the thread about it.
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/48d3232d-0f1d-42ea-3109-f44bbabfa2e8@xilinx.com/
>>>
>>> I have been talking about it internally and there is no interest in these
>>> platforms and it is also orphan for quite a long time. None is really
>>> running/testing these platforms regularly that's why I think it makes sense
>>> to remove them also with drivers which are specific to this platform.
>>>
>>> U-Boot support was removed in 2017 without anybody complain about it
>>> https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx/commit/98f705c9cefdfdba62c069821bbba10273a0a8ed
>>>
>>> Based on current ppc/next.
>>>
>>> If anyone has any objection about it, please let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks for taking the time to find all this code and remove it.
>> 
>> I'm not going to take this series for v5.7, it was posted too close to
>> the merge window, and doing so wouldn't give people much time to object,
>> especially given people are distracted at the moment.
>> 
>> I'm happy to take it for v5.8, assuming there's no major objections.
>
> Sure. Just to let you know Christophe Leroy included this patch in his
> series about ppc405 removal. It should be the same.
>
> If you don't want to take that alsa patch I can send it separately and
> this patch can be taken from his series. I don't really mind but please
> let me know what way you prefer.

It's better to keep it all together, so I'm happy take the alsa patch as
well, it's already been acked.

cheers
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