Nathan Lynch <nath...@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> Remove the pseries scanlog driver.
>
> This code supports functions from Power4-era servers that are not present
> on targets currently supported by arch/powerpc. System manuals from this
> time have this description:
>
>   Scan Dump data is a set of chip data that the service processor gathers
>   after a system malfunction. It consists of chip scan rings, chip trace
>   arrays, and Scan COM (SCOM) registers. This data is stored in the
>   scan-log partition of the system’s Nonvolatile Random Access
>   Memory (NVRAM).
>
> PowerVM partition firmware development doesn't recognize the associated
> function call or property, and they don't see any references to them in
> their codebase. It seems to have been specific to non-virtualized
> pseries.

Just bumping this to see if there are any objections.

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