Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] powerpc/xmon: Remove PPC403 and PPC405

[Michael Ellerman]

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:49 AM Christophe Leroy
> <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> xmon has special support for PPC403 and PPC405 which were part
>> of 40x platforms.
>>
>> 40x platforms are gone, remove support of PPC403 and PPC405 in xmon.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc-opc.c | 277 +++++++-----------------------------
>>  arch/powerpc/xmon/ppc.h     |   6 -
>
> These files are from binutils, and may get synchronized with changes there
> in the future. I'd suggest leaving the code in here for now and instead removing
> it from the binutils version first, if they are ready to drop it, too.

Yes those files are almost direct copies of the binutils versions, and
we'd like to keep it that way to ease future synchronisation of changes.

cheers