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Nunes do Rosario" , Geert Uytterhoeven , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , ALSA Development Mailing List , dri-devel , Jaroslav Kysela , Richard Fontana , Paul Mackerras , Miquel Raynal , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Sasha Levin , Stephen Rothwell , Jonathan Corbet , Michael Ellerman , Masahiro Yamada , Takashi Iwai , YueHaibing , Michal Simek , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Linux ARM , Leonardo Bras , Matt Porter , DTML , Andrew Donnellan , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Marc Zyngier , Alistair Popple , linuxppc-dev , Nicholas Piggin , Alexios Zavras , Mark Brown , git@xilinx.com, Linux Fbdev development list , Jonathan Cameron , Thomas Gleixner , Allison Randal , Christophe Leroy , Michal Simek , Wei Hu , Christian Lamparter , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nick Desaulniers , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Armijn Hemel , Rob Herring , Enrico Weigelt , "David S. Miller" , Thiago Jung Bauermann Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:15 PM Andy Shevchenko 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 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@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. > > > > > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann > > > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel