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2025-02-26	powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM Cell Blades	Michael Ellerman
	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
2019-05-30	treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 153	Thomas Gleixner
	Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 675 mass ave cambridge ma 02139 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 77 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl> Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.837555891@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2009-01-08	powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: add SPU event profiling support	Carl Love
	This patch adds the SPU event based profiling funcitonality for the IBM Cell processor. Previously, the CELL OProfile kernel code supported PPU event, PPU cycle profiling and SPU cycle profiling. The addition of SPU event profiling allows the users to identify where in their SPU code various SPU evnets are occuring. This should help users further identify issues with their code. Note, SPU profiling has some limitations due to HW constraints. Only one event at a time can be used for profiling and SPU event profiling must be time sliced across all of the SPUs in a node. The patch adds a new arch specific file to the OProfile file system. The file has bit 0 set to indicate that the kernel supports SPU event profiling. The user tool must check this file/bit to make sure the kernel supports SPU event profiling before trying to do SPU event profiling. The user tool check is part of the user tool patch for SPU event profiling. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-08-04	powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm	Stephen Rothwell
	from include/asm-powerpc. This is the result of a mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places where <asm-powepc/...> was being used explicitly. Of the latter only one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>