Re: [PATCH 05/13] ARM: orion/dove/mv78xx0: remove all board files

From: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] ARM: orion/dove/mv78xx0: remove all board files
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 22:14:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqBsqaftroGc0Mfb@ryzen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908152808.3928630-6-arnd@kernel.org>

On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> The 'orion' platform is the predecessor to what linux now calls the
> 'mvebu' line of Marvell SoCs, and originally covered orion5x,
> mv78xx0, kirkwood, dove and a few others that do not have any
> upstream support at the moment.
> 
> Only a few board files remain here, these are the ones left
> in 2022 board file purge because they had some level of support
> in Debian or OpenWRT, mostly for commercial NAS or router boxes.
> This distro support is now gone, and nobody has converted the
> board files to devicetree, though the orion5x and dove platforms
> also come with devicetree support for some other machines.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
> Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
> Cc: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
> Cc: Jeremy J. Peper <jeremy@jeremypeper.com>
> Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
> Cc: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulfh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kwilczynski@kernel.org>
> Cc: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@kernel.org>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Weissschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
> Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-phy@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org> # ata parts