Re: [PATCH 01/26] board: powerpc: Remove MPC8548CDS support

["Łukasz Majewski" <lukma@nabladev.com>]

Hi Tom, Bradley,

> On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 07:36:39PM +0000, Bradley Morgan wrote:
> 
> > MPC8548 silicon is no longer manufactured, and the MPC8548CDS board
> > is obsolete. Remove the board and its SoC support.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>  
> 
> So, globally. As has been discussed on IRC already, please take a more
> neutral removal message in v2. The problem isn't that the boards
> aren't manufactured, it's that (likely) they aren't being actively
> tested and maintained in the community. We're fine with "obsolete"
> hardware if someone is maintaining it. Also, please rework the CC
> list (outside the cover letter) to include the listed board
> maintainers, and then only people that have touched the relevant code
> recently, perhaps with a manual audit or exclude some global or
> common files, when looking for who else to CC. Thanks.
> 

Maybe I would add my 2 cents...

There are a lot of MPC85xx systems out there - and probably (my guess)
is that at some point some customers would be "forced" to refurbish
them.

Some companies need very long time to realize that their crucial legacy
products may be removed from u-boot. I would opt for longer and more
"broadcast" obsolence process.


I had similar situation in the past when some Samsung SoCs were removed
from u-boot - nobody was willing to pay for re-adding them upstrem -
this means that they were kept out of tree.



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Lukasz Majewski

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