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

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Fri Mar 27 14:14:34 UTC 2020


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 2:15 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com> 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 <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:

...

> > > > 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.

Ah, you are right. No objections from ppc40x removal!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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