Re: [PATCH 15/15] ARM: mark footbridge as deprecated

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:29:09 +0000,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > Along with RiscPC and SA1100, these are the last remaining Intel StrongARM
> > machines. The Corel NetWinder used to be particular popular in the late
> > 1990s, but was discontinued during the bankruptcy of rebel.com in 2001.
> > The other machine is the DEC (later Intel) EBSA285 evaluation board that
> > was made in small numbers in 1997 for software developers.
> 
> IIRC David Rusling at DEC was sending this board out to interested
> developers.
> 
> > The footbridge/netwinder platform was the main target for the first Debian
> > 2.0 "Hamm" release on the Arm architecture back in 1998, but was dropped
> > in Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" in 2011, which only supported ARMv4T and higher
> > with the EABI based ports as ARMv4 hardware had fallen already out of
> > use by that time.
> >
> > Link: http://netwinder.org/
> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> > Cc: Ralph Siemsen <ralph.siemsen@linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> I am booting it occasionally, last time to test my KCFI patches.
> But admittedly that is only to test it for other SA110 users. I remember
> that Christoph had problems consolidating the DMA used in this
> machine as well so it is standing in the way of useful work.
> 
> Apart from Ralph and me I know Marc Z has been known to boot
> this machine, so paging him as well.

I won't be crying. It's probably been a couple of years since I last
switched it on, and it is IMO ready to join the DEC Shark on the shelf
of "used to be great" HW.

FWIW,

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

	M.

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