Hi Michael,
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 7:36 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When the OF code was originally made common by Grant in commit
> 51975db0b733 ("of/flattree: merge early_init_dt_scan_memory() common
> code") (Feb 2010), the common code inherited a hack to handle
> PPC "longtrail" machines, which had a "memory@0" node with no
> device_type.
>
> That check was then made to only apply to PPC32 in b44aa25d20e2 ("of:
> Handle memory@0 node on PPC32 only") (May 2014).
>
> But according to Paul Mackerras the "longtrail" machines are long
> dead, if they were ever seen in the wild at all. If someone does still
> have one, we can handle this firmware wart in powerpc platform code.
>
> So remove the hack once and for all.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch!
My LongTrail died in 2004. I haven't heard since even longer about active
use from any of the other people I know that had one.
So:
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
However, recently Dominik (CC) send me an enquiry about it, so perhaps
he is a happy user?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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