Re: [PATCH 13/13] ARM: axxia: remove entire platform

["Sverdlin, Alexander" <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>]

On Tue, 2026-09-08 at 17:28 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> The initial Axxia port was contributed by LSI in 2014, but never completed
> after the sale of the business unit to Intel, which kept supporting the
> bulk of the drivers in their own downstream BSP.
> 
> The downstream work has also ended now, and there is no realistic chance
> that anyone would rewrite it all into an upstreamable port.
> 
> Remove it now that the 7.3LTS release is out and can be used as the
> base for one more downstream rebase of the downstream patches if needed.
> 
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>
> Cc: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
> Cc: Anders Berg <anders.berg@lsi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Reviewed-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com>

> ---
>  .../devicetree/bindings/arm/axxia.yaml        |  23 --
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   8 -
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                              |   2 -
>  arch/arm/Makefile                             |   2 -
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/Makefile              |   1 -
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/Makefile          |   5 -
>  .../boot/dts/intel/axm/axm5516-amarillo.dts   |  47 ----
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/axm5516-cpus.dtsi | 200 ---------------
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/axm55xx.dtsi      | 200 ---------------
>  arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig            | 231 ------------------
>  arch/arm/mach-axxia/Kconfig                   |  17 --
>  arch/arm/mach-axxia/Makefile                  |   3 -
>  arch/arm/mach-axxia/axxia.c                   |  19 --
>  arch/arm/mach-axxia/platsmp.c                 |  87 -------
>  14 files changed, 845 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/axxia.yaml
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/axm5516-amarillo.dts
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/axm5516-cpus.dtsi
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/intel/axm/axm55xx.dtsi
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/configs/axm55xx_defconfig
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-axxia/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-axxia/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-axxia/axxia.c
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-axxia/platsmp.c

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Alexander Sverdlin
Siemens AG
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