The arch/ppc tree has been in a semi-nebulous "bug fix only" state for a few kernel releases now. The patch below officially declares this as of the 2.6.22 kernel release and schedules arch/ppc for removal in June of 2008.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ linux-2.6/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -348,3 +348,15 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------- +What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories +When: Jun 2008 +Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 + platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining + arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc + tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will + remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms + that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an + interested maintainer. +Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org + +--------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
