Re: [PATCH 03/13] ARM: pxa: add Kconfig dependencies for ATAGS based boards

From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>,
	Laurence de Bruxelles <lfdebrux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] ARM: pxa: add Kconfig dependencies for ATAGS based boards
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:28:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1wmy1yg.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220721141722.2414719-4-arnd@kernel.org>

On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:17:12 +0100,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> Most of the traditional board files are no longer used by anyone and
> will be removed next year, while the DT based machine support remains.
> 
> Adding a CONFIG_ATAGS dependency around all the board files means
> that they now actaully get disabled when ATAGS support is left out,
> and the individual boards that have no known users are marked
> as depending on CONFIG_UNUSED_BOARD_FILES, with the plan to remove
> them in early 2023 unless someone else shows interest.
> 
> Laurence de Bruxelles intends to work on converting the Spitz/Akita/Borzoi
> family of Sharp Zaurus SL machines to DT, to make that easier those
> remain for the moment.
> 
> In addition, the "Gumstix" machine is the one that is supported in
> qemu with 256MB of RAM, which makes it particularly nice for testing,
> I'm leaving it in hoping that someone can take care of converting it to
> DT as well.
> 
> Finally, Marc Zyngier is still able to test the Zeus and Viper machines,
> so these could be saved as well if anyone wants to conver them to DT.
> This seems less likely, so I'm marking them as unused for the time being.

Note that although I have the machines (I do remember which side of
the attic they are stored), I don't have much bandwidth to actually
revive them (assuming I could remember the RedBoot runes to kick them
into action).

I can only renew my offer to unload them on a willing victim, but I
have the feeling that there are no takers.

>
> For the defconfig files, both the pxa3xx_defconfig and pxa_defconfig
> now only enable the boards that are not marked as unused, while all the
> other ones explicitly enable CONFIG_UNUSED_BOARD_FILES to still allow
> building the kernels.
> 
> Cc: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
> Cc: Laurence de Bruxelles <lfdebrux@gmail.com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

	M.

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