On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 07:43:12PM +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? Of course janitorial patches will be considered. The Malta code used to scream even way louder. I made an opportunistic attempt at fixing the one or other corner over time, whenever something was getting in my way for some reason. Ralf
