RE: 4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now

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From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=3Dxilinx.com@ozlabs.org

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bounces+stephen.neuendorffer=3Dxilinx.com@ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Josh

Boyer

Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:19 AM
To: Grant Likely
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; Paul Mackerras
Subject: Re: 4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:11:48 -0600
"Grant Likely" [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Josh Boyer

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This commit (patch omitted due to size) is sitting in my local

tree:

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commit 0d7efc1e80fc262bcc507a605482c5681e3f082a
Author: Josh Boyer [off-list ref]
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

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   arch/powerpc equivalents should be used.  Boards that are not

ported yet

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   will need to be ported to arch/powerpc to have continued

support.

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This looks like unneeded churn.

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Excellent.  My prompting has succeeded.  Though now I won't get to be
on top of the "top contributors" list in the lwn.net pages like Kumar
was.  Oh well.
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Paulus, Can we just kill all of arch/ppc for .27 right now?

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Please.  Pretty please?
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Acked-by: Josh Boyer <redacted>
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josh

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Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <redacted>

I'd like to see this happen soon so a few stacked patches we have can
finally go in.

Steve


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