From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org 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.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40D89C79F82 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 16:56:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender:List-Subscribe:List-Help :List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References:Cc:To:From:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=zxfHukaWNxcBEp0pmc++HuJ+JqVKCOkG3+1+3ES2XS0=; b=tJH1GT/OCjdq95PD6Pzbv9zbmD LVoD5dLmG/MuGctms28zujxPKswPsmH5I1yLddeH5VYA4ASmGlxveKp+JqZrjnltBCZwsc7qtPipS i0mSKp+wvO9VdPK7dhKbrU82dlSuhZBOuUIlEybujqlODX6sDxibmX53+CY1qY+bP0BGySsRC7HeJ E03ajceg0lvY+zPPmUaYd09fHDfHE0KRC2SZgZhBXdyPgNqqpsoXZuwpZghKa0omnT5z3HEkpyvaX 97SENgFEArCfhVdJ/kutUeJqveekWaP53FZGWs6UPsWStEKHcON7EFp4PZ6tlj6jbnQ+VFODKkjFv XNElyOog==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1x3z7D-00000009kFT-3Nwx; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:56:11 +0000 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 1x3z7A-00000009kEt-0dmC; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:56:08 +0000 Message-ID: <3b9c6799-0b74-41d0-8421-acfb3487b910@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:56:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] ARM: deprecated platform removal From: Randy Dunlap 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 9/8/26 9:53 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > 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)? gag. I hadn't received patch 02/13 yet. Didn't realize that. :( Only the nwfpe/ question remains. -- ~Randy