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    powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver · 1d65b1c8
    Michael Ellerman authored
    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>
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