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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc: Remove support for ppc405/440 Xilinx platforms
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Le 21/05/2020 à 12:38, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>
>
> Le 21/05/2020 à 09:02, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
>>> +On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:04 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>>>>> On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 15:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>>>>> IBM still put 40x cores inside POWER chips no ?
>>>>
>>>> Oh yeah that's true. I guess most folks don't know that, or that they
>>>> run RHEL on them.
>>>
>>> Is there a reason for not having those dts files in mainline then?
>>> If nothing else, it would document what machines are still being
>>> used with future kernels.
>>
>> Sorry that part was a joke :D  Those chips don't run Linux.
>>
>
> Nice to know :)
>
> What's the plan then, do we still want to keep 40x in the kernel ?
>
> If yes, is it ok to drop the oldies anyway as done in my series
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=172630 ?
>
> (Note that this series will conflict with my series on hugepages on 8xx due to the
> PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES stuff. I can rebase the 40x modernisation series on top of the 8xx hugepages
> series if it is worth it)
>

Do we still want to keep 40x in the kernel ? We don't even have a running 40x QEMU machine as far as
I know.

I'm asking because I'd like to drop the non CONFIG_VMAP_STACK code to simplify and ease stuff (code
that works with vmalloc'ed stacks also works with stacks in linear memory), but I can't do it
because 40x doesn't have VMAP_STACK and should I implement it for 40x, I have to means to test it.

So it would ease things if we could drop 40x completely, unless someone there has a 40x platform to
test stuff.

Thanks
Christophe

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