From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753291AbaBYVd7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:33:59 -0500 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:53460 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751164AbaBYVd6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:33:58 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:33:53 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Andrey Panin , David Rientjes , Paul Gortmaker , Dave Hansen Subject: Re: RFC: Removing Visual Workstation and NUMAQ Message-ID: <20140225213353.GA9980@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <530CFD6C.7040705@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <530CFD6C.7040705@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14022521-8236-0000-0000-0000002AB816 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:30:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I would like to remove Visual Workstation and NUMAQ from the x86 kernel. > This removes a fair bit of code which from the current looks is only > being made to suffer general patches: > > Visual Workstation: > > Documentation/sgi-visws.txt | 13 - > MAINTAINERS | 7 - > arch/x86/Kconfig | 13 - > arch/x86/include/asm/visws/cobalt.h | 127 ----- > arch/x86/include/asm/visws/lithium.h | 53 -- > arch/x86/include/asm/visws/piix4.h | 107 ---- > arch/x86/include/asm/visws/sgivw.h | 5 - > arch/x86/pci/Makefile | 2 - > arch/x86/pci/visws.c | 87 ---- > arch/x86/platform/Makefile | 1 - > arch/x86/platform/visws/Makefile | 1 - > arch/x86/platform/visws/visws_quirks.c | 608 ----------------------- > 12 files changed, 1024 deletions(-) > > NUMAQ: > > arch/x86/include/asm/numaq.h | 171 ---------- > arch/x86/kernel/apic/Makefile | 1 - > arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c | 524 ------------------------------ > arch/x86/pci/Makefile | 1 - > arch/x86/pci/numaq_32.c | 165 ---------- > 5 files changed, 862 deletions(-) > > > If there still are people who care about these platforms, please speak up. >>From a NUMAQ viewpoint: Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Thanx, Paul