From: Josh Boyer Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:25:46 +0000 (+1000) Subject: [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~767^2^2~19 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b7dbfbf13192a57591275d50b0993cb0acdb25c;p=karo-tx-linux.git [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc The arch/ppc tree has been in a semi-nebulous "bug fix only" state for a few kernel releases now. The patch below officially declares this as of the 2.6.22 kernel release and schedules arch/ppc for removal in June of 2008. Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 7d3f205b0ba5..70f7d99032a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -348,3 +348,15 @@ Who: Tejun Heo --------------------------- +What: The arch/ppc and include/asm-ppc directories +When: Jun 2008 +Why: The arch/powerpc tree is the merged architecture for ppc32 and ppc64 + platforms. Currently there are efforts underway to port the remaining + arch/ppc platforms to the merged tree. New submissions to the arch/ppc + tree have been frozen with the 2.6.22 kernel release and that tree will + remain in bug-fix only mode until its scheduled removal. Platforms + that are not ported by June 2008 will be removed due to the lack of an + interested maintainer. +Who: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org + +---------------------------