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Subject: RE: 4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:48:03 -0700
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From: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=3Dxilinx.com@ozlabs.org
[mailto:linuxppc-dev-
> bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=3Dxilinx.com@ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Josh
Boyer
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:19 AM
> To: Grant Likely
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; Paul Mackerras
> Subject: Re: 4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now
> =

> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:11:48 -0600
> "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:
> =

> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Josh Boyer
<jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > This commit (patch omitted due to size) is sitting in my local
tree:
> > >
> > > commit 0d7efc1e80fc262bcc507a605482c5681e3f082a
> > > Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Date:   Thu Jun 5 09:46:17 2008 -0500
> > >
> > >    ppc/4xx: Remove 4xx support from arch/ppc
> > >
> > >    Remove support for PPC 403, 405, and 440 processors from
arch/ppc.  The
> > >    arch/powerpc equivalents should be used.  Boards that are not
ported yet
> > >    will need to be ported to arch/powerpc to have continued
support.
> >
> > This looks like unneeded churn.
> =

> Excellent.  My prompting has succeeded.  Though now I won't get to be
> on top of the "top contributors" list in the lwn.net pages like Kumar
> was.  Oh well.
> =

> > Paulus, Can we just kill all of arch/ppc for .27 right now?
> =

> Please.  Pretty please?
> =

> Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> =

> josh

For what it's worth, =


Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>

I'd like to see this happen soon so a few stacked patches we have can
finally go in.

Steve


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