On Wed, Aug 26, 2026, at 18:06, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Note that the IBM Cell blades that shipped the Cell processor were
> removed in commit 05bf59fbeef3 ("powerpc/cell: Remove support for IBM
> Cell Blades"). The PlayStation 3 is the only platform left and nothing
> there produces or reads these notes.I don't see how you concluded the PS3 does not produce these notes: as far as I can tell, spufs on PS3 should still be able to do this if a process using an SPU crashes, and old gdb binaries should still be able to read them. Whether anyone is still developing SPU programs on new kernels and would benefit from the information in the dump I don't know. > So remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <[email protected]> With clarifications in the changelog: Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> I have no objection to removing the spufs coredump. If anyone still cares, Geoff Levand would know, so I've added him to Cc. Arnd
