Re: [v2] Old platforms: bring out your dead

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [v2] Old platforms: bring out your dead
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:26:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16c669df-3b66-7fc8-1a3a-cbdeed0ddc74@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1d3RKtG1MU=-Ajdjp+Phibg6LV3oEvim1z-yOMn+LSyQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Arnd!

On 1/17/21 11:56 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I'd be happy to drop any QS20/21 code we have, but I'm not convinced
>> dropping QS22 is a good trade off.
> 
> Right, I agree that there is little to gain from dropping QS20/21, the
> only files that I see this would impact are
> 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spider-pci.c
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spider-pic.c
> drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net*
> 
> Dropping all of native (as opposed to PS3 hypervisor based) Cell support
> would be a useful cleanup I think, but not as long as you still use it.

I'm very glad to hear that. Cell is such a unique and interesting architecture
that it would be a shame if it was no longer supported by the Linux kernel.

I would really like to try Debian on these machines one day.

Adrian

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