Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Le 21/05/2020 à 09:02, Michael Ellerman a écrit : >> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: >>> +On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:04 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 15:59 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >>>>>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ? I guess we keep it for now. Perhaps we mark it BROKEN for a few releases and see if anyone complains? > 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 ? Yeah let's do it. I would love to get rid of that horrible PPC405_ERR77() sprinkled all through our atomics. > (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) Yeah if you can rebase that would be great. cheers
