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Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:34:56 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead To: Arnd Bergmann , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: From: Florian Fainelli Message-ID: <0f363c27-608d-76be-3af5-189d812f805d@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:34:52 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 Thunderbird/78.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210109_123459_308098_7B60A550 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 18.61 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Baruch Siach , Geert Uytterhoeven , Neil Armstrong , Viresh Kumar , Linus Walleij , Daniel Tang , Jamie Iles , Krzysztof Adamski , Alexander Shiyan , Michael Ellerman , Russell King - ARM Linux , Wei Xu , Oleksij Rempel , Alex Elder , Marc Gonzalez , Hans Ulli Kroll , =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=c3=b6nig?= , Steven Rostedt , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Lubomir Rintel , Koen Vandeputte , Barry Song , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Yoshinori Sato , Jonas Jensen , Hartley Sweeten , Mark Salter , Shawn Guo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 1/8/2021 2:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > After v5.10 was officially declared an LTS kernel, I had a look around > the Arm platforms that look like they have not seen any patches from > their maintainers or users that are actually running the hardware for > at least five years (2015 or earlier). I made some statistics and lists > for my lwn.net article last year [1], so I'd thought I'd share a summary > here for discussion about what we should remove. As I found three > years ago when I removed several CPU architectures, it makes sense > to do this in bulk, to simplify a scripted search for device drivers, header > files and Kconfig options that become unused in the process. > > This is probably a mix of platforms that are completely unused and > those that just work, but I have no good way of knowing which one > it is. Without hearing back about these, I'd propose removing all of > these: > > * asm9260 -- added in 2014, no notable changes after 2015 > * axxia -- added in 2014, no notable changes after 2015 > * bcm/kona -- added in 2013, no notable changes after 2014 I have a development board that I occasionally turn on for testing upstream kernels, it has not broken in a while which is why it did not get much updates. I don't feel strongly with respect to keep it or dropping it though. -- Florian _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel