From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753723AbaBYUa6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:30:58 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59678 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753330AbaBYUaz (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:30:55 -0500 Message-ID: <530CFD6C.7040705@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:30:36 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Andrey Panin , David Rientjes , Paul Gortmaker , Dave Hansen Subject: RFC: Removing Visual Workstation and NUMAQ X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -hpa