Commit 1d65b1c8 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman

powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver

The QS21/22 IBM Cell blades had a southbridge chip called Axon. This
could have DDR DIMMs attached to it, though they were not directly
usable as RAM, instead they could be used as some sort of buffer, if
applications were written specifically to use the block device
provided by the driver.

Although the driver supposedly had direct access support, it was
apparently never tested (see commit 91117a20 ("axonram: Fix bug in
direct_access")).

These machines have not been available for over 5 years, and were
never widely in use. It seems highly unlikely anyone is using this
driver.

In general we're happy to leave old drivers in the tree, but because
DAX is involved this driver is caught up in the ongoing work in that
area, but none of the DAX folks are able to test it.

So remove the driver, if any one *is* using it, we'll be happy to put
it back.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 5b8b5806
......@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ stall the CPU for an extended period, you should also not attempt to
implement direct_access.
These block devices may be used for inspiration:
- axonram: Axon DDR2 device driver
- brd: RAM backed block device driver
- dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver
- pmem: NVDIMM persistent memory driver
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......@@ -293,17 +293,6 @@ config CPM2
you wish to build a kernel for a machine with a CPM2 coprocessor
on it (826x, 827x, 8560).
config AXON_RAM
tristate "Axon DDR2 memory device driver"
depends on PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE && BLOCK
select DAX
default m
help
It registers one block device per Axon's DDR2 memory bank found
on a system. Block devices are called axonram?, their major and
minor numbers are available in /proc/devices, /proc/partitions or
in /sys/block/axonram?/dev.
config FSL_ULI1575
bool
default n
......
......@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ mv64x60-$(CONFIG_PCI) += mv64x60_pci.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MV64X60) += $(mv64x60-y) mv64x60_pic.o mv64x60_dev.o \
mv64x60_udbg.o
obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS) += rtc_cmos_setup.o
obj-$(CONFIG_AXON_RAM) += axonram.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PCI) += indirect_pci.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_I8259) += i8259.o
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