[v2] Old platforms: bring out your dead

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Arnd!

On 1/17/21 11:56 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I'd be happy to drop any QS20/21 code we have, but I'm not convinced
>> dropping QS22 is a good trade off.
> 
> Right, I agree that there is little to gain from dropping QS20/21, the
> only files that I see this would impact are
> 
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spider-pci.c
> arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spider-pic.c
> drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/spider_net*
> 
> Dropping all of native (as opposed to PS3 hypervisor based) Cell support
> would be a useful cleanup I think, but not as long as you still use it.

I'm very glad to hear that. Cell is such a unique and interesting architecture
that it would be a shame if it was no longer supported by the Linux kernel.

I would really like to try Debian on these machines one day.

Adrian

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