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| author | Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2007-07-03 23:25:46 +1000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-07-10 21:55:52 +1000 |
| commit | 0b7dbfbf13192a57591275d50b0993cb0acdb25c (patch) | |
| tree | 8489f455b5b06aaf4668780064b63c64ca3208ef /Documentation | |
| parent | b6f41cc8304ce04a5afa3e1e5d2ff6e8088831b7 (diff) | |
[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 <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
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 <htejun@gmail.com> --------------------------- +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 + +--------------------------- |