From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20091007.140938.255120957.davem@davemloft.net> To: crn@netunix.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/12] Merge common OpenFirmware device tree code From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20091007135243.GC21646@anhedonia> <4ACCEC67.9070106@firmworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sammy@sammy.net, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, julian.calaby@gmail.com, wmb@firmworks.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Chris Newport Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:54:34 +0100 (BST) > Sun4c has also been broken for a long time and sun4d has never worked > properly. Is it time to also prune these ?. > That would leave only Sun4m in the 32bit kernel, which still works and > has plenty of ongoing user interest. Chris don't over-exaggerate the state. The truth is that the whole sparc32 port is in a state of mild disrepair, and many of the issues apply to all the port rather than just one family of systems. I think someone suitably motivated could get most of the bugs sorted out. There is no reason to drop support for SS1 machines, we already fully build the software device tree and use all of the generic OF infrastructure in the Linux kernel on those systems. It is not a road block at all for the OF genericization work, if that's what you read into wmb's email.