| Message ID | 20240726123322.1165562-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Commit | db9a63913fc7aa6ea419c9a787bfa18937515037 |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [1/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark powerpc Cell as orphaned | expand |
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024, at 14:33, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Arnd is no longer actively maintaining Cell, mark it as orphan. > > Also drop the dead developerworks link. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> The platform contains two separate bits, so we need to decide what to do with each one of them in the long run: CONFIG_PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE is clearly dead, they were sold from 2006 to 2012 and never that popular aside from a handful of supercomputers that were all dismantled a long time ago. Unless there is a user that wants to keep maintaining these, we can probably remove all this code soon, e.g. after the next LTS kernel. CONFIG_SPU_FS is shared with the PS3 platform, which is still used and maintained. The bit I don't know is how common it is to actually still use spufs on the PS3. Support for spu programs was removed in gcc-9.1 and gdb-8.3, so none of the major distros even ship old enough toolchains any more, but existing applications and older toolchains should still work for people that have them and want to run new kernels. Geoff, are you using spufs on ps3, and if so, should we move arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu* to the PS3 entry in the MAINTAINERS file? I don't think there is any advantage in actually moving the files to platforms/ps3 if we delete the cell blade support. Arnd
Hi Arnd, On 7/26/24 22:15, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Geoff, are you using spufs on ps3, and if so, should > we move arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu* to the PS3 > entry in the MAINTAINERS file? I don't think there > is any advantage in actually moving the files to > platforms/ps3 if we delete the cell blade support. ps3_defconfig has both CONFIG_SPU_BASE and CONFIG_SPU_FS enabled. I think one of the things users want to use are the SPUs. Updating the MAINTAINERS file sounds OK. Do you want to make the patch for that? -Geoff
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:33:21 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > Arnd is no longer actively maintaining Cell, mark it as orphan. > > Also drop the dead developerworks link. > > Applied to powerpc/next. [1/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark powerpc Cell as orphaned https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/db9a63913fc7aa6ea419c9a787bfa18937515037 [2/2] MAINTAINERS: Mark powerpc spufs as orphaned https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/81695066c76fa74aa00aadbcb360cc7ab9c70c51 cheers
diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index 053e5a5003eb..65165dc80f04 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ S: 1549 Hiironen Rd. S: Brimson, MN 55602 S: USA +N: Arnd Bergmann +D: Maintainer of Cell Broadband Engine Architecture + N: Hennus Bergman P: 1024/77D50909 76 99 FD 31 91 E1 96 1C 90 BB 22 80 62 F6 BD 63 D: Author and maintainer of the QIC-02 tape driver diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 07f753f039d2..ffcac216b57d 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -5087,10 +5087,8 @@ F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/cec/cec-gpio.yaml F: drivers/media/cec/platform/cec-gpio/ CELL BROADBAND ENGINE ARCHITECTURE -M: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> L: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org -S: Supported -W: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/ +S: Orphan F: arch/powerpc/include/asm/cell*.h F: arch/powerpc/include/asm/spu*.h F: arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/spu*.h
Arnd is no longer actively maintaining Cell, mark it as orphan. Also drop the dead developerworks link. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> --- CREDITS | 3 +++ MAINTAINERS | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)