From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754779Ab2BBCgj (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:36:39 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:33844 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754615Ab2BBCgi (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 21:36:38 -0500 Message-ID: <1328150174.28487.100.camel@pasglop> Subject: [RFC] Removing support for legacy iSeries From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Linux Kernel list , Linus Torvalds , Anton Blanchard , Paul Mackerras , Stephen Rothwell Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:36:14 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org So I (and Stephen) believe the time has come that we get rid of the legacy iSeries support in the kernel.... Is there any objection ? Do we have any user left ? The hypervisor on these is really nasty, and removing support for it would allow us to clean up quite a bit of code path including low level & asm ones from iSeries special cases. Also it's becoming increasingly hard for me to test that we are still capable of booting these. I will keep it if we have users but since distros don't support it anymore (and haven't for a while now) I am pretty keen. Any objection ? Cheers, Ben.