linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove PReP

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Date:	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:27:03 +0100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, Adam Belay <abelay@....edu>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove PReP

On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 13:05 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> > 3) I removed two files in documentation that are almost entirely PReP
> > specific. The remaining lines looked uninteresting.
> 
> > --- a/Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt
> > +++ /dev/null
> 
> > -2. IBM CHRP
> > -
> > -  I have only tested this on the 43P-150.  Build the kernel with the cs4232
> > -  set as a module and load the module with irq=9 dma=1 dma2=2 io=0x550
> 
> This section is CHRP-specific. The cs4232 driver also worked on the
> CHRP LongTrail.
> But I don't remember if the parameter values above also applied to LongTrail.
> I do remember it didn't work without specifing the right parameters, so you
> probably want to keep this section.

Isn't LongTrail support LongDead ? Can we still boot these things at
all ? Anybody still has a functional one ?

Cheers,
Ben.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds


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