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

[Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>]

On 01. 04. 20 12:38, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:35:16 +0200,
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Sure, please go ahead.


g8.

Thanks,
Michal