Re: RFC: Removing Visual Workstation and NUMAQ

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:30:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

>From a NUMAQ viewpoint:

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

							Thanx, Paul

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