[PATCH] ARM: remove ixp2000 platform

Richard Cochran richardcochran at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 12:38:44 EST 2012


On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 05:10:53PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > The NSLU2 is (was) a quite popular NAS device and it is used in big 
> > endian by default.
> > 
> > The BE support isn't getting in the way of anything, so there is no 
> > reason to remove it, even if it isn't being used much.
> 
> Ok, that's what I thought, just making sure. If it was completely
> dead code, things would be different.

Obligatory Monty Python quote:

    "I'm not dead."
    "'Ere, he says he's not dead."
    "Yes he is."

Even though Intel dropped the IXP like a hot potato, people are still
actively using Linux on it, and in big endian mode.

Thanks,
Richard



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