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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 Hi Arnd, On 2021/1/15 20:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:09 PM Leizhen (ThunderTown) > wrote: >> On 2021/1/15 17:26, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 8:08 AM Wei Xu wrote: >>>> On 2021/1/14 0:14, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:55 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>>>> * mmp -- added in 2009, DT support is active, but board files might go >>>>> * cns3xxx -- added in 2010, last fixed in 2019, probably no users left >>>>> * hisi (hip01/hip05) -- servers added in 2013, replaced with arm64 in 2016 >>>> >>>> I think it is OK to drop the support of the hip01(arm32) and hip05(arm64). >>>> Could you also help to drop the support of the hip04(arm32) which I think nobody use as well? >>> >>> Thank you for your reply! I actually meant to write hip04 instead of hip05, >>> so I was only asking about the two 32-bit targets. I would expect that >>> hip05 still has a few users, but wouldn't mind removing that as well if you >>> are sure there are none. >>> >>> Since Zhen Lei is starting to upstream Kunpeng506 and Kunpeng509 >>> support, can you clarify how much reuse of IP blocks there is between >>> hip04 and those? In particular, hip04 has custom code for (at least) >>> platmcpm, clk, irqchip, ethernet, and hw_rng, probably more as those >>> were only the ones I see on a quick grep. >>> >>> If we remove hip04, should we remove all these drivers right away, >>> or keep some of them around? >> >> I think the drivers should be kept. > > Ok, will do. > >> Currently, at least hip04_eth.c and irq-hip04.c are used. These drivers >> were originally written for Hip04, but the drivers used by other boards >> maybe similar to them. Therefore, these drivers are extended without >> adding new drivers. > > Right, so the other chips just use compatible="hisilicon,hip04-intc" > etc. in their device trees? Is there a public copy of the dts files > somewhere that I can use for cross-referencing? Sorry if I'm > messing up the timeline for your upstreaming plans. > > It might actually be easier to leave hip01 and hip04 in the > tree for the moment until you have upstreamed the other SoC > support, and then we clean up by removing the unused bits > afterwards. I'll leave it to you both to tell me which way is easier > for you. I have aligned with Leizhen and as you suggested it is better to keep them for the moment. Thanks! Best Regards, Wei > > Arnd > . > _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel