On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:15 PM Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 03:10:26PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:12 PM Michal Simek michal.simek@xilinx.com wrote:
recently we wanted to update xilinx intc driver and we found that function which we wanted to remove is still wired by ancient Xilinx PowerPC platforms. Here is the thread about it. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/48d3232d-0f1d-42ea-3109-f44bbabfa2e8@xili...
I have been talking about it internally and there is no interest in these platforms and it is also orphan for quite a long time. None is really running/testing these platforms regularly that's why I think it makes sense to remove them also with drivers which are specific to this platform.
U-Boot support was removed in 2017 without anybody complain about it https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx/commit/98f705c9cefdfdba62c069821bbba10...
Based on current ppc/next.
If anyone has any objection about it, please let me know.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de
This looks reasonable to me as well, in particular as the code only supports the two ppc44x virtex developer boards and no commercial products.
It does raise a follow-up question about ppc40x though: is it time to retire all of it?
Who knows?
I have in possession nice WD My Book Live, based on this architecture, and I won't it gone from modern kernel support. OTOH I understand that amount of real users not too big.
+Cc: Christian Lamparter, whom I owe for that WD box.
According to https://openwrt.org/toh/wd/mybooklive, that one is based on APM82181/ppc464, so it is about several generations newer than what I asked about (ppc40x).
Ah, and I have Amiga board, but that one is being used only for testing, so, I don't care much.
I think there are a couple of ppc440 based Amiga boards, but again, not 405 to my knowledge.
Arnd