RFC: Removing Visual Workstation and NUMAQ

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Feb 25 2014 - 15:31:11 EST


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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