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 264D4C79F82 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 16:54:05 +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:From:References:Cc:To: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=y4hi2ivsLfr2ufMlsG0ARQMmUxC4cRTpVCxzIc4mQOk=; b=yN7fdn93ug5LPjOjr0ePapr9kM k4x/RNe4Nc6YftlY7UvxFjbLBZIAQrplxgq/D4qR55cdO0RDDC1UW88iFlIsLLDMeXJD9crmK6AAa zTJKl3HOvnh644+a0twNw+QBe87rPbjef/acKS0e5whLQQM8dO+YVPO0fxamABu8PphDhp9yxRrif WTgKx0lEG1Hk3mgZGJEt+WeAGD9AVylSkSizpKKcmO+KKLfSHSQbOdMdwyPlwwqRJTtvHZ2LbN1hl j42+1FqenoKgCUw5CPohitr4mi8n4UqsmzRY0LhAD6ixS0dJp38dWHOst5PE6Xd7BqoD9wdocrJJs pVHVaKhg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1x3z50-00000009jyc-1lHi; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:53:54 +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 1x3z4x-00000009jyE-0Hpm; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:53:51 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:53:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] ARM: deprecated platform removal 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 From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20260908152808.3928630-1-arnd@kernel.org> 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 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)? thanks. -- ~Randy