[PATCH] ARM: remove ixp2000 platform

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 06 March 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 28 February 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > ixp2000 has no commits other than tree-wide changes or refactoring since
> > > 2006. No maintainer is listed for ixp2000 either.
> > 
> > I have this in my copy of the MAINTAINERS file:
> > 
> > ARM/INTEL IXP2000 ARM ARCHITECTURE
> > M:      Lennert Buytenhek <kernel at wantstofly.org>
> > L:      linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
> > S:      Maintained
> > 
> > It's missing an F: line, otherwise it suggests that the platform is still
> > maintained by Lennert and it certainly builds just fine. Unfortunately he
> > seems to have fallen off the edge of the planet at the end of last year.
> 
> FYI, here's a snippet of a conversation I just had with Lennert on IRC 
> today:
> 
> 13:05 < nico> do you still care about ixp2000?
> 13:22 < lennert> not really, no
> 13:58 < nico> do you think we could remove it from the kernel tree?
> 14:01 < lennert> go for it, and remove ixp23xx too while you're at it

Ah, good to know that Lennert is actually still alive somewhere.

And removing ixp2xxx in 3.5 will certainly help us, too. 

Interestingly, that leaves ixp4xx as the only big-endian ARM platform.
I believe that ixp4xx is still being actively used quite a bit, but does
that include the big-endian ones? There is no immediate reason why we
would want to drop support for big-endian, but if it's not used at all,
that would be an interesting cleanup opportunity.

	Arnd