linux-kernel - [RFC] Removing support for legacy iSeries

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Date:	Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:36:14 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <pmac@....ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: [RFC] Removing support for legacy iSeries

So I (and Stephen) believe the time has come that we get rid of the
legacy iSeries support in the kernel....

Is there any objection ? Do we have any user left ?

The hypervisor on these is really nasty, and removing support for it
would allow us to clean up quite a bit of code path including low level
& asm ones from iSeries special cases.

Also it's becoming increasingly hard for me to test that we are still
capable of booting these.

I will keep it if we have users but since distros don't support it
anymore (and haven't for a while now) I am pretty keen.

Any objection ?

Cheers,
Ben.

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