Ubuntu drops support for ia64 and sparc

[Posted August 19, 2010 by corbet]
From:		leann.ogasawara-AT-canonical.com
To:		kernel-team-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:		[Maverick] [PATCH 0/9] Drop support for ia64 and sparc
Date:		Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:40:59 -0700
Message-ID:		<cover.1282150973.git.leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
Cc:		luke.yelavich-AT-canonical.com
Archive-link:		Article
Earlier in the Maverick release cycle the Tech Board had posted an
announcement [1] that we'd decommission support for the Ubuntu sparc and
ia64 ports at Feature Freeze (ie Thurs Aug 12) if no interested parties
stepped forward to take over maintenance.  No one has stepped forward to
take ownership.  The Tech Board has subsequently voted (and approved) to
decommission support for both these ports archs [2].  The following set
of patches drop support for ia64 and sparc from our Maverick kernel.

Luke, I've CC'd you on this just to give you a heads up since you've
been maintaining the ubuntu-maverick-ports-meta git tree at the moment.

Thanks,
Leann

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2...
[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-Au... 

Leann Ogasawara (9):
  Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] [FTBS] ia64: Temporarily disable
    CONFIG_CEPH_FS"
  Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] [FTBS] ia64: Temporarily disable gpiolib"
  Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] [FTBS] sparc: Temporarily disable
    CONFIG_MTD_NAND_DENALI"
  Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] [FTBS] sparc: Temporarily disable
    CONFIG_MFD_JANZ_CMODIO"
  Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] [FTBS] sparc: Temporarily disable
    CONFIG_INFINIBAND_QIB"
  UBUNTU: Remove ia64 support
  UBUNTU: [Config] Update portsconfigs after removing ia64 support
  UBUNTU: Remove sparc support
  UBUNTU: [Config] Update portsconfigs after removing sparc support

 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/ia64/ia64           | 9884 --------------------
 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/ia64/ia64.modules   | 2286 -----
 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64       | 9088 ------------------
 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64-smp   | 9174 ------------------
 .../abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64-smp.modules     | 1976 ----
 .../abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64.modules         | 1974 ----
 debian.master/config/config.common.ports           |  533 +-
 debian.master/config/enforce                       |    2 +-
 debian.master/config/ia64/config.common.ia64       |  305 -
 debian.master/config/ia64/config.flavour.ia64      |    3 -
 debian.master/config/powerpc/config.common.powerpc |  266 -
 debian.master/config/sparc/config.common.sparc     |  309 -
 debian.master/config/sparc/config.flavour.sparc64  |    5 -
 .../config/sparc/config.flavour.sparc64-smp        |    5 -
 debian.master/control.d/vars.ia64                  |    6 -
 debian.master/control.d/vars.sparc64               |    6 -
 debian.master/control.d/vars.sparc64-smp           |    6 -
 debian.master/control.stub.in                      |    4 +-
 debian.master/d-i/kernel-versions.in               |    4 -
 debian.master/etc/getabis                          |    2 -
 debian.master/etc/kernelconfig                     |    2 +-
 debian.master/rules.d/ia64.mk                      |   21 -
 debian.master/rules.d/sparc.mk                     |   18 -
 23 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 35612 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/ia64/ia64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/ia64/ia64.modules
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64-smp
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64-smp.modules
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.35-16.22/sparc/sparc64.modules
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/config/ia64/config.common.ia64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/config/ia64/config.flavour.ia64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/config/sparc/config.common.sparc
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/config/sparc/config.flavour.sparc64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/config/sparc/config.flavour.sparc64-smp
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/control.d/vars.ia64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/control.d/vars.sparc64
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/control.d/vars.sparc64-smp
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/rules.d/ia64.mk
 delete mode 100644 debian.master/rules.d/sparc.mk
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