From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C50EF57F73D; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 16:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788886462; cv=none; b=I7EH4q47MVxYwJSAqLhu4Jgb7LKjszF8ZYRWSX3ov7ew1icVnJ0N6wSudJ8elxEIDS0jxIOVIMordU6EUjhOZGjN0jpsJbMgSVY7uLHCWeIpt4at1MrB9jr5o4Wkx9B5KzAYqYxuApAKCZ6H44g7u9GcdwHuLJmp/9ledkJ0Ays= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788886462; c=relaxed/simple; bh=67dfvoVDkYR8Zd9d8dGEQV8aYWgXblUjXYlm0fotljg=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=WesdK8qkY6c2MfP16Jnno6SsJLbX24rbsx7S6QDzFIOEjudZx1A7hwd8FunycLBpYMb2h/yHFMao4aQ/sPC+Hb3G1KDRLfU/WcAcVoosAv63mn61NdLfYzhjS5KRf+D/mPHBJY1gI5juoXlU98CkbRhf9y30HBXeP3VmeL4EWRI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=twmW+hOv; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="twmW+hOv" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=y4hi2ivsLfr2ufMlsG0ARQMmUxC4cRTpVCxzIc4mQOk=; b=twmW+hOvQXNAxGM0/ZuSyJQMeS Ct0OE5kY5oLVOaCoRr0dqX9krn78Y5xBXUZPvT3+pnaXbPshun+O1UjToTkbS4OPfx4Rj+mmd9LMh j1PrCNYSmV5j4i6U13g2dDDXQMhZSTKbes2kep5xUO5+nc/dk0sx6sVw4EH8N6aeXdE+rv5Q4O0h8 fRZRJdXNWCK3SV6nvGIUGqi/VMC/8VO8hEsaHI+q4SqlKAlLLzAQHjWCfTTaBEuXs76tSGO9faHgO 3c0pJhaTnlD1WV26qHa9b1KEg5Cw4/yamZN4YjH1Bf5HWeRNF4/rcybPo1jGMr1h2IwSFXEAuHXsx byFzaGWA==; Received: from [50.53.43.113] (helo=[192.168.254.34]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1x3z4x-00000009jyE-0Hpm; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:53:51 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:53:48 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: imx@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] ARM: deprecated platform removal To: Arnd Bergmann , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Alexandre Belloni , Linus Walleij , Russell King Cc: Drew Fustini , Arnd Bergmann , Rob Herring , Conor Dooley , Liviu Dudau , Sudeep Holla , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Frank Li , Sascha Hauer , Pengutronix Kernel Team , Fabio Estevam , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Stefan Agner , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , Aaro Koskinen , Andreas Kemnade , Kevin Hilman , Roger Quadros , Tony Lindgren , Nicolas Ferre , Claudiu Beznea , Andrew Lunn , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Gregory Clement , Robert Jarzmik , Kristoffer Ericson , Ethan Nelson-Moore , Geert Uytterhoeven , Alexander Sverdlin , Shawn Guo , Karl Mehltretter , "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" , Nicolas Pitre , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org References: <20260908152808.3928630-1-arnd@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20260908152808.3928630-1-arnd@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/8/26 8:27 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > In the 7.3 kernel, I marked a number of platforms and features as > deprecated, with the plan to keep these around for the LTS kernel, but > remove them in 7.4, see [1]. > > Cleaning out the deprecated platform code has turned into a larger effort > than I expected, currently standing at 300 patches, with a lot of them > still in need of being split up into smaller ones, see [2] for a current > snapshot. > > The first series here removes just the bits in arch/arm/mach-*/, plus > the portions that directly depend on the removed Kconfig symbols where > these are trivial to remove. > > The parts that are not included are those that remove architectural > features and device drivers that become unused after this part. Some of > those may also make their way into 7.4, but at this point I would target > 7.5 for most of them, to keep the dependencies simple. > > This also gives everyone a chance to voice their objections in case > that some of the removed platform code does have active users after all, > before all the corresponding drivers are gone. > > Arnd > > Links: > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260701212353.2196041-1-arnd@kernel.org/ > [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/log/?h=board-remove-7.3 > > Arnd Bergmann (13): > ARM: remove sa1100 platform > ARM: remove footbridge > ARM: remove riscpc > ARM: remove legacy pxa board files > ARM: orion/dove/mv78xx0: remove all board files > ARM: omap2: remove omap24xx support > ARM: imx: remove i.MX31 SoC support > ARM: imx: remove nommu support > ARM: lpc18xx: remove entire platform > ARM: stm32: remove stm32f4/f7/h7 MCU support > ARM: versatile: remove mps2 support > ARM: at91: remove samv7 support > ARM: axxia: remove entire platform > > Documentation/arch/arm/index.rst | 1 - > Documentation/arch/arm/netwinder.rst | 85 - I don't see netwinder.rst in any of the single patches. Should it be in one of them? [snip] > arch/arm/configs/netwinder_defconfig | 88 - Same for netwinder_defconfig. If netwinder is going away, can all of Documentation/arch/arm/nwfpe/ also go away? Or do all of these come later (in phase 2 or 3)? thanks. -- ~Randy