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On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:53:47 +0300
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:11:48AM -0600, Grant Likely 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.
>> >
>> > Paulus, Can we just kill all of arch/ppc for .27 right now?
>>
>> Is anyone already working on doing this and the cleanups that will then
>> be possible?
>>
>> Otherwise I'll be glad to contribute to it.   :)
>
> I think we can handle it.  Thanks though.

BTW Paul, we agreed in your absence on IRC that you should take the
honors of committing the kill arch/ppc patch and the associated top
spot in LWN's top committers list... but there's a price.  You may
very well get mailed the bar tab from the ding-dong-arch-ppc-is-dead
party at OLS this year. >:-}

Oh, and we're going try to create the longest acked-by chain in Linux history.

Cheers,
g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.