From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove PReP
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:24:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51530F3C.1010703@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364388152.1345.29.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
On 2013-03-27 06:42, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 13:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> This section is CHRP-specific. The cs4232 driver also worked on the
>> CHRP LongTrail.
>> But I don't remember if the parameter values above also applied to LongTrail.
>> I do remember it didn't work without specifing the right parameters, so you
>> probably want to keep this section.
>
> My reasoning was quite simply that this file was 14 years old so that
> probably nobody is using that stuff anymore. Are people actually using
> CHRP (whatever that is)? Anyhow, cs4232 is mentioned in some other files
Common Hardware Reference Platform - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hardware_Reference_Platform
> too:
> $ git grep -l -n cs4232 Documentation/
> Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt
> Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
> Documentation/sound/alsa/alsa-parameters.txt
> Documentation/sound/oss/Introduction
> Documentation/sound/oss/Tropez+
>
> Could these few lines be dumped in one of these (except
> powerpc/sound.txt, of course)?
>
Seeing this stuff go marks the end of an era (the PreP and CHRP
platforms were some of the very first devices to run Linux back
in 1995...) I just sent my last one to the recycler a few months
back :-(
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-21 11:10 [PATCH] powerpc: drop even more unused Kconfig symbols Paul Bolle
2013-03-22 4:21 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-03-27 10:47 ` [PATCH] powerpc: remove PReP Paul Bolle
2013-03-27 12:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-03-27 12:42 ` Paul Bolle
2013-03-27 12:55 ` Paul Bolle
2013-03-27 15:24 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2013-03-27 15:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-27 10:51 ` [PATCH] powerpc: drop even more unused Kconfig symbols Paul Bolle
2013-03-28 0:31 ` Michael Ellerman
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