Re: [v2] Old platforms: bring out your dead

Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-01-13T19:03:57Z

Arnd,

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

> For these I received no reply yet. Again, these will stay for the moment
> unless I get a reply, but if anyone has more information, please reply
> here to document the status (adding a few more people to Cc):
>
> * cns3xxx -- added in 2010, last fixed in 2019, probably no users left

The following is what I sent to you a week ago. I don't say whether
CNS3xxx support should stay or not, of course.

Subject: Re: cns3xxx PCIe domain support

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> writes:

> For the cns3xxx case, I wonder if anyone actually cares. If
> there are still users, the treewide change would make it trivial
> to set it up right, while backporting would be harder. I noticed
> that openwrt removed cns3xxx support in August with the
> explanation that the platform is not used much anymore,
> and I suspect that any users outside of openwrt stopped updating
> their kernels long ago.

I'm still using CNS3xxx-based Gateworks' boards (Laguna), with some
custom patch set, but the last kernels are over 2 years old. I have some
plan to update, but the probability it will happen very soon is rather
low. I guess I will test and, if needed, fix it when the time comes.

I'm not using them with OpenWrt, though.
They are basically a platform for (the old, parallel, not express)
mini-PCI cards and similar stuff. Nothing connected to the Internet etc.

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Krzysztof Halasa

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