Re: [PATCH v3] hw/block/nand: Decommission the NAND museum

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 00:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
>
> This is the QEMU equivalent of this Linux commit (but 7 years later):
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f7025a43a9da2
>
>     The MTD subsystem has its own small museum of ancient NANDs
>     in a form of the CONFIG_MTD_NAND_MUSEUM_IDS configuration option.
>     The museum contains stone age NANDs with 256 bytes pages, as well
>     as iron age NANDs with 512 bytes per page and up to 8MiB page size.
>
>     It is with great sorrow that I inform you that the museum is being
>     decommissioned. The MTD subsystem is out of budget for Kconfig
>     options and already has too many of them, and there is a general
>     kernel trend to simplify the configuration menu.
>
>     We remove the stone age exhibits along with closing the museum,
>     but some of the iron age ones are transferred to the regular NAND
>     depot. Namely, only those which have unique device IDs are
>     transferred, and the ones which have conflicting device IDs are
>     removed.
>
> The machine using this device are:
> - axis-dev88
> - tosa (via tc6393xb_init)
> - spitz based (akita, borzoi, terrier)
>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
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> v3: Do not manually convert tabs to space to avoid mistakes...

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

thanks
-- PMM