[PATCH v2 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms

[Michal Simek]

Hi Michael,

On 26. 05. 20 15:44, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu> writes:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> On 01. 04. 20 13:30, Michal Simek wrote:
>>> On 01. 04. 20 12:38, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:35:16 +0200,
>>>> Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> writes:
>>>>>> On 01. 04. 20 4:07, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>>>>> Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> writes:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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@xilinx.com/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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/98f705c9cefdfdba62c069821bbba10273a0a8ed
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Based on current ppc/next.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If anyone has any objection about it, please let me know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for taking the time to find all this code and remove it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not going to take this series for v5.7, it was posted too close to
>>>>>>> the merge window, and doing so wouldn't give people much time to object,
>>>>>>> especially given people are distracted at the moment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm happy to take it for v5.8, assuming there's no major objections.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sure. Just to let you know Christophe Leroy included this patch in his
>>>>>> series about ppc405 removal. It should be the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you don't want to take that alsa patch I can send it separately and
>>>>>> this patch can be taken from his series. I don't really mind but please
>>>>>> let me know what way you prefer.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's better to keep it all together, so I'm happy take the alsa patch as
>>>>> well, it's already been acked.
>>
>> Can you please take this series? I know that there is v5 from Christophe
>> which has this 1/2 as 1/13. But I need this alsa patch too and I would
>> like to close this because it is around for almost 2 months and none
>> raised a concern about removing just these Xilinx platforms.
> 
> Sorry I meant to reply to your last mail.
> 
> I have Christophe's series in my testing branch, planning for it to be
> in v5.8.
> 
> Even if the rest of his series doesn't make it for some reason, as you
> say the Xilinx removal is uncontroversial so I'll keep that in.
> 
> I forgot about the sound patch, I'll pick that up as well.

I took a look at your
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git repo
and I can't see any branch with my patches.
Also was checking linux-next and my patches are also not there.
That's why I am curious if this will be go v5.8 in MW.

Thanks,
Michal