linux-kernel - RFC: Removing Visual Workstation and NUMAQ

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Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:30:36 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Andrey Panin <pazke@...pac.ru>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: RFC: Removing Visual Workstation and NUMAQ

I would like to remove Visual Workstation and NUMAQ from the x86 kernel.
 This removes a fair bit of code which from the current looks is only
being made to suffer general patches:

Visual Workstation:

 Documentation/sgi-visws.txt            |  13 -
 MAINTAINERS                            |   7 -
 arch/x86/Kconfig                       |  13 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/visws/cobalt.h    | 127 -----
 arch/x86/include/asm/visws/lithium.h   |  53 --
 arch/x86/include/asm/visws/piix4.h     | 107 ----
 arch/x86/include/asm/visws/sgivw.h     |   5 -
 arch/x86/pci/Makefile                  |   2 -
 arch/x86/pci/visws.c                   |  87 ----
 arch/x86/platform/Makefile             |   1 -
 arch/x86/platform/visws/Makefile       |   1 -
 arch/x86/platform/visws/visws_quirks.c | 608 -----------------------
 12 files changed, 1024 deletions(-)

NUMAQ:

 arch/x86/include/asm/numaq.h    | 171 ----------
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/Makefile   |   1 -
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c | 524 ------------------------------
 arch/x86/pci/Makefile           |   1 -
 arch/x86/pci/numaq_32.c         | 165 ----------
 5 files changed, 862 deletions(-)


If there still are people who care about these platforms, please speak up.

	-hpa
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