Re: [PATCH 08/33] Removing dead SA1101

From: Marek Vasut
Date: Wed Jun 30 2010 - 20:03:29 EST


Dne St 30. Äervna 2010 20:59:05 Nicolas Pitre napsal(a):
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dne St 30. Äervna 2010 18:57:43 Nicolas Pitre napsal(a):
> > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > > SA1101 doesn't exist in Kconfig, therefore removing all
> > > > references for it from the source code.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > You're dropping support for a whole CPU here ... is the code redundant or
> > something ?
>
> The SA1101 is not a CPU. It is a companion chipset for the SA1100. And
> so far we have no target using it in the tree, and that isn't likely to
> change more than 10 years after the chip availability. Needless to say
> that the SA1101 has long been unavailable either.
>
> We also have support for the SA1111 which is a similar companion chipset
> for the SA1110. This is not going away as at least the Neponset
> expansion board for the Assabet development board is using a SA1111.
>
>
> Nicolas

Oh I see. Thanks for clearing that.
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