Re: [PATCH] usb: bdc: Remove the BDC PCI driver

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Mon Jan 18 2021 - 06:32:43 EST



Hi,

Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> The BDC PCI driver was only used for design verification with
> an PCI/FPGA board. The board no longer exists and is not in use
> anywhere. All instances of this core now exist as a memory mapped
> device on the platform bus.
>
> NOTE: This only removes the PCI driver and does not remove the
> platform driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@xxxxxxxxx>

It sounds like it could be used for pre-silicon verification of newer
Core Releases, much like Synopsys still uses the HAPS (with mainline
linux, mind you) for silicon validation.

Why would we delete this small shim if it *could* still be useful?

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balbi

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