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Michael Ellerman 05bf59fbee powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades
IBM Cell Blades used the Cell processor and the "blade" server form
factor. They were sold as models QS20, QS21 & QS22 from roughly 2006 to
2012 [1]. They were used in a few supercomputers (eg. Roadrunner) that
have since been dismantled, and were not that widely used otherwise.

Until recently I still had a working QS22, which meant I was able to
keep the platform support working, but unfortunately that machine has
now died.

I'm not aware of any users. If there is a user that wants to keep the
upstream support working, we can look at bringing some of the code back
as appropriate.

See previous discussion at [2].

Remove the top-level config symbol PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE, and then
the dependent symbols PPC_CELL_NATIVE, PPC_CELL_COMMON, CBE_RAS,
PPC_IBM_CELL_RESETBUTTON, PPC_IBM_CELL_POWERBUTTON, CBE_THERM, and
AXON_MSI. Then remove the associated C files and headers, and trim
unused header content (some is shared with PS3).

Note that PPC_CELL_COMMON sounds like it would build code shared with
PS3, but it does not. It's a relic from when code was shared between the
Blade support and QPACE support.

Most of the primary authors already have CREDITS entries, with the
exception of Christian, so add one for him.

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2011/06/28/ibm_kills_qs22_blade
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/60581044-df82-40ad-b94c-56468007a93e@app.fastmail.com

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241218105523.416573-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
History 2025-02-26 21:15:07 +05:30
arch powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades 2025-02-26 21:15:07 +05:30
block block-6.14-20250131 2025-01-31 11:49:30 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
Documentation powerpc: Document details on H_HTM hcall 2025-02-11 11:35:45 +05:30
drivers Additional power management fix for 6.14-rc2 2025-02-09 09:47:06 -08:00
fs four SMB3 client fixes, 3 DFS related 2025-02-07 19:23:06 -08:00
include Kbuild fixes for v6.14 2025-02-09 10:05:32 -08:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.14 2025-01-31 12:07:07 -08:00
io_uring Fix a dangling pointer bug in the futex code used by the 2025-02-08 10:54:11 -08:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel static_call_inline: Provide trampoline address when updating sites 2025-02-26 21:09:43 +05:30
lib hardening fixes for v6.14-rc2 2025-02-08 14:12:17 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm assorted stuff for this merge window 2025-02-01 15:07:56 -08:00
net vfs-6.14-rc2.fixes 2025-02-07 09:22:31 -08:00
rust rust: kbuild: do not export generated KASAN ODR symbols 2025-02-06 19:47:04 +01:00
samples AT_EXECVE_CHECK update for v6.14-rc1 (fix1) 2025-01-31 17:12:31 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v6.14 2025-02-09 10:05:32 -08:00
security treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
sound sound fixes for 6.14-rc1 2025-01-31 09:17:02 -08:00
tools objtool/powerpc: Add support for decoding all types of uncond branches 2025-02-26 21:09:43 +05:30
usr kbuild: Drop support for include/asm-<arch> in headers_check.pl 2024-12-21 11:43:17 +09:00
virt KVM: remove kvm_arch_post_init_vm 2025-02-04 11:27:45 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: use host dylib naming convention to support macOS 2025-01-10 01:01:24 +01:00
.mailmap 21 hotfixes. 8 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.13 issues. 2025-02-01 09:49:20 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades 2025-02-26 21:15:07 +05:30
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS gpio fixes for v6.14-rc2 2025-02-07 09:50:33 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.14-rc2 2025-02-09 12:45:03 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.