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[66.90.144.107]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id xf19-20020a056870cf1300b001724742cfcesm3759713oab.38.2023.04.03.11.36.43 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (nullmailer pid 1340936 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:36:43 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 13:36:43 -0500 From: Rob Herring To: Neil Armstrong Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , soc@kernel.org, Krzysztof Kozlowski , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-oxnas@groups.io, Linus Walleij , Daniel Golle , Krzysztof Kozlowski Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Message-ID: <20230403183643.GA1335487-robh@kernel.org> References: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230403_113648_110117_577D139B X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 22.54 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:42:17AM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote: > With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable, > associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to > dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed. > > In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present > in an ARM config file. > > For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable > in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the > vendor (defunct for years) sources. > > The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means > support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026. > > If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll > be happy to hand off maintainance. > > The plan is to apply the first 4 patches first, then the drivers > followed by bindings. Finally the MAINTAINANCE entry can be removed. > > I'm not sure about the process of bindings removal, but perhaps the bindings > should be marked as deprecated first then removed later on ? Nah, just remove them. Like the code, we can always bring them back if needed. Rob _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel