On Thu, Nov 14, 2024, at 15:31, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: >> CHRP (Common Hardware Reference Platform) was a standard developed by >> IBM & Apple for PowerPC-based systems. >> >> The standard was used in the development of some machines but never >> gained wide spread adoption. >> >> The Linux CHRP code only supports a handful of machines, all 32-bit, eg. >> IBM B50, bplan/Genesi Pegasos/Pegasos2, Total Impact briQ, and possibly >> some from Motorola? No Apple machines should be affected. >> >> All of those mentioned above are over or nearing 20 years old, and seem >> to have no active users. >> >> So remove the CHRP support. If there's interest in still supporting some >> of the machines that can be brought back from the git history. >> >> Note there are still some references to CHRP/chrp in various comments >> and some in the code, because later standards (eg. RPA, PAPR) used some >> elements of CHRP or copied the CHRP behaviour. These will need to be >> cleaned up on a case-by-case basis to either refer to newer standards or >> left as-is when that's correct. >> >> The CHRP code was copied from arch/ppc, and before that it mostly >> predates git, so the original authorship is largely lost. If anyone >> wrote any of this code and would like a CREDITS entry just let me know. >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> >
Whole series Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
