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

[Christophe Leroy]

Hi,

Le 03/06/2020 à 10:10, Michal Simek a écrit :
> 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.

I see them in 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git in 
next-test branch.

Christophe