Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:58:59PM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote: > >>> I was actually planning to remove the Qemu platform for 2.6.25. The >>> Malta emulation has become so good that there is no more point in having >>> the underfeatured synthetic platform that CONFIG_QEMU is. >> I wholeheartedly agree with that. It is a godsend to me that I can use >> identical configs to build the kernels for QEMU and for a physical Malta. >> Emulation is more convenient to me because QEMU boots and runs faster >> than the board I'm working with. Many thanks for that to QEMU developers. >> >> Off the topic, how about the plans to remove Atlas support? > > Maciej is promising to fix it up since a few years ;-) Aside of that it's > safe to say the Atlas is dead like a coffin nail. Well, I could do the proper cleanup, if you give your sayso. As I wrote here yesterday, I noticed that Malta code was screaming for being put into proper shape. If MIPS maintainers are interested in applying such janitorial patches, I could simultaneously wipe the Atlas support off. So? > > The main problem with the Atlas is the SAA9730 SOC which is broken in an > infinite number of totally pervert ways, I'm told. I know of no systems > other than the Atlas using it. > > Ralf >
