Re: sparc sun4c support - time to drop it?

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Hi Sam,

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 06:21:04PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Also considering that sun4c support has been broken for
> some time and there is a few changes pending where sun4c
> does not make things simpler we will drop sun4c support.
>
> I already took a quick look at it and in the process
> I think I uncovered a bug in NMI handling for sun4m
> in UP mode. We would call the sun4c nmi trap despite
> being a sun4m box - this would not go well.
>
> When I have something tested I will forward my
> patches.

Would it be possible to hide sun4c away behind a kconfig variable that
is marked as BROKEN with a entry in the feature-removal file?

Or is that just too much work for code which has been broken for a long time.

Thanks,

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