Re: [PATCH v2 28/28] fbdev/p9100: Drop now unused driver p9100
From: Sam Ravnborg <hidden>
Date: 2024-03-11 17:48:42
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dri-devel, linux-sound, linux-usb, lkml, sparclinux
From: Sam Ravnborg <hidden>
Date: 2024-03-11 17:48:42
Also in:
dri-devel, linux-sound, linux-usb, lkml, sparclinux
Hi Arnd. On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 03:05:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 19:15, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote:quoted
From: Sam Ravnborg <redacted> The p9100 driver is only relevant for the Sparcbook 3 machine, and with sun4m support removed this driver is no longer relevant. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <redacted> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> --- drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig | 8 - drivers/video/fbdev/Makefile | 1 - drivers/video/fbdev/p9100.c | 372 ------------------------------------------- 3 files changed, 381 deletions(-)I tried to figure out if there are other drivers in the same category and found the list at https://everything2.com/title/Sun+graphics+cards As far as I can tell, the only SBUS graphics that were shipped on sparc64 are FB_FFB and FB_CG6, so we could go further and remove BW2, CG3, TCX, CG14 and LEO as well.
Looks like you are right, so we can drop more - good. As you already wrote - let's get the current patch set processed first. I did a quick hack on top of my current sparc32 patches. This is nice reduction of ~2700 lines and 5 fbdev drivers less to care about. Sam