[PATCH v2] firmware: Remove obsolete Myricom firmware

[Tim Gardner]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.On 07/25/2012 01:42 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> Author: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Jun 20 12:51:22 2011 -0700
> 
>     myri_sbus: remove driver
>     
>     Remove the myri_sbus driver. Why?
>     * There is no possibility of ethernet mode on this adapter, so it's
>       Myrinet only.
>     * It won't inter-op with modern versions of Myrinet, and thus can only
>       work with legacy adapters.
>     * There are no in-kernel Linux drivers for the PCI version of this
>       adapter, so it only can work on ~15 year old Sun hardware.
>     
>     It's long in the tooth, let's take it to the knackers.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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