From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [V3] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:45:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C50615.1030601@ozlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160217124131.3E1D6140770@ozlabs.org>
On 02/17/2016 11:41 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-08-02 at 04:08:20 UTC, Russell Currey wrote:
>> "p5ioc2 is used by approximately 2 machines in the world, and has never
>> ever been a supported configuration."
>>
>> The code for p5ioc2 is essentially unused and complicates what is already
>> a very complicated codebase. Its removal is essentially a "free win" in
>> the effort to simplify the powernv PCI code.
>>
>> In addition, support for p5ioc2 has been dropped from skiboot. There's no
>> reason to keep it around in the kernel.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
>> Acked-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2de50e9674fc4ca3c6174b0447
WOW! Nice :( I am using one, every day, even for HV KVM sometime. Thanks,
folks.
--
Alexey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 4:08 [PATCH V3] powerpc/powernv: Remove support for p5ioc2 Russell Currey
2016-02-08 5:05 ` Gavin Shan
2016-02-08 7:19 ` Stewart Smith
2016-02-17 12:41 ` [V3] " Michael Ellerman
2016-02-17 23:45 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy [this message]
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