From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com (Alexander Sverdlin) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:26:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v5 0/4] ARM: ep93xx: ts72xx: Add support for BK3 board In-Reply-To: References: <20171116232239.16823-1-lukma@denx.de> <20171211233625.5689-1-lukma@denx.de> Message-ID: <1513153607.2439.2.camel@Nokia-N900> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hello Linus! On Wed Dec 13 08:34:22 2017 Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote: > Out of curiosity: Liebherr is obviously doing heavy-duty industrial > control systems. Likewise Hartley is doing similar business over > at Vision Engravings. > > Is the situation such that there is a whole bunch of industrial > systems out there, in active use and needing future upgrades, > that use the EP93xx? That's definitely the case. I'm as well aware of several thousands of industrial devices which are expected to run 24/7 for the next 5 years at least. And they are updated from time to time. > Arnd has been nudging me to do DT conversion for EP93xx > so if there are many active industrial users of these > I should prioritize it, because these things have 20+ years > support cycles. I'm not sure how important or necessary at all is to change anything in these legacy platforms. > We also need to think about upholding support in GCC for > ARMv4(t) for the foreseeable future if there is a big web of > random deeply embedded systems out there that will need > updates. But we should definitely preserve at least what we have. -- Alexander.