On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:00 PM, <joe@smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
Quoting Corey Osgood <corey.osgood@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:32 PM, <joe@smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Quoting Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:04:59PM -0400,
>> joe@smittys.pointclark.netwrote:
>> > >> Ack that. The RM4100 has a i82801DB ICH4 and I am using the i82801xx
>> > >> code. The original i82801DB code never worked right, so can we at
>> > >> least drop that one?
>> > >
>> > > We should only drop code where all boards in svn have been migrated to
>> > > i82801xx (and tested!) to be on the safe side. I.e. if there's an
>> > > ICH* southbridge which is no longer used by any board, drop it (but
>> > only
>> > > in that case). If this means we keep the old code around for the time
>> > being,
>> > > that's fine.
>> > >
>> > > But of course we should
>> > >
>> > >  - Make all _new_ boards work with i82801xx only (not the other ones)
>> > >
>> > >  - Only port the i82801xx to v3 (not the other ones)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > Like I said the i82801DB has never work and no ther boards use it.......
>> > Ok, so how do we drop i82801DB via svn? Do we need ACK, Sign-off, etc?
>> >
>> > Thanks - Joe
>> >
>>
>> Use "svn rm", and yes, you'd need an ack that I'd be happy to provide.
>> Make sure you abuild test it, just to make sure that there's no board we've
>> forgotten about that's using it. If there is, I'm 90% sure it's the one with
>> the i855 northbridge, and that's never worked either, so probably all of it
>> could be dropped.
>>
>> -Corey
>>
>
> Yep, it's the digitallogic/adl855pc. I think it was Ron that said the 855
> never worked, but that was a long time ago, and I can't be sure.  Perhaps we
> should just leave it kicking around, and focus on not letting this happen to
> v3.
>
Nope. The digitallogic/adl855pc uses the i82801DBM (ICH-4M). I am
talking about the i82801DB (ICH4). Two different chipsets. There are
no boards that use the i82801DB (ICH4). The code does NOT work.

Removal of i82801DB (ICH4)
Signed-off-by: Joseph Smith <joe@smittys.pointclark.net>

Thanks - Joe

The patch is missing, but when it gets here its
Acked-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood@gmail.com>