[PATCH 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Ben,

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:34 AM Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 15:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> > > On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 16:30 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > > I have no attachment to 40x, and I'd certainly be happy to have
> > > > less
> > > > code in the tree, we struggle to keep even the modern platforms
> > > > well
> > > > maintained.
> > > >
> > > > At the same time I don't want to render anyone's hardware
> > > > obsolete
> > > > unnecessarily. But if there's really no one using 40x then we
> > > > should
> > > > remove it, it could well be broken already.
> > > >
> > > > So I guess post a series to do the removal and we'll see if
> > > > anyone
> > > > speaks up.
> > >
> > > We shouldn't remove 40x completely. Just remove the Xilinx 405
> > > stuff.
> >
> > Congratulations on becoming the 40x maintainer!
>
> Didn't I give you my last 40x system ? :-) IBM still put 40x cores
> inside POWER chips no ?

Good to know!

Are they still big-endian, or have they been corrupted by the LE frenzy,
too? ;)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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