Re: [PATCH v2 28/28] fbdev/p9100: Drop now unused driver p9100

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

Hi Arnd.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 03:05:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 19:15, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> >
> > The p9100 driver is only relevant for the Sparcbook 3 machine,
> > and with sun4m support removed this driver is no longer relevant.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
> > Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
> > Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig  |   8 -
> >  drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile |   1 -
> >  drivers/video/fbdev/p9100.c  | 372 -------------------------------------------
> >  3 files changed, 381 deletions(-)
> 
> I tried to figure out if there are other drivers in the same
> category and found the list at
> https://everything2.com/title/Sun+graphics+cards
> 
> As far as I can tell, the only SBUS graphics that were
> shipped on sparc64 are FB_FFB and FB_CG6, so we could
> go further and remove BW2, CG3, TCX, CG14 and LEO as
> well.

Looks like you are right, so we can drop more - good.
As you already wrote - let's get the current patch set processed first.

I did a quick hack on top of my current sparc32 patches.
This is nice reduction of ~2700 lines and 5 fbdev drivers less to care
about.

	Sam