[PATCH 08/33] Removing dead SA1101

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 20:01:05 EDT 2010


Dne St 30. června 2010 20:59:05 Nicolas Pitre napsal(a):
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dne St 30. června 2010 18:57:43 Nicolas Pitre napsal(a):
> > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > > SA1101 doesn't exist in Kconfig, therefore removing all
> > > > references for it from the source code.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge at cs.fau.de>
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net>
> > 
> > You're dropping support for a whole CPU here ... is the code redundant or
> > something ?
> 
> The SA1101 is not a CPU.  It is a companion chipset for the SA1100.  And
> so far we have no target using it in the tree, and that isn't likely to
> change more than 10 years after the chip availability.  Needless to say
> that the SA1101 has long been unavailable either.
> 
> We also have support for the SA1111 which is a similar companion chipset
> for the SA1110.  This is not going away as at least the Neponset
> expansion board for the Assabet development board is using a SA1111.
> 
> 
> Nicolas

Oh I see. Thanks for clearing that.



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