From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: msm: Remove MSM7x00 support Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:33:12 -0800 Message-ID: <1322767992.3704.13.camel@m0nster> References: <1322699344-28422-1-git-send-email-davidb@codeaurora.org> <1322752657.3704.2.camel@m0nster> <20111201181736.GA13182@huya.qualcomm.com> <1322764745.3704.9.camel@m0nster> <20111201192705.GA23641@huya.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:49636 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751149Ab1LATdP (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:33:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111201192705.GA23641@huya.qualcomm.com> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: David Brown Cc: Bryan Huntsman , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:27 -0800, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > If someone is willing to step up and make it work, then we can keep it > > > around. My only G1 is fried, so I have no way to do anything other > > > than keep it compiling. > > > > Unfortunately, You can't remove it regardless of whether or not you have > > one to test on.. Your job is to do the best you can to keep it working > > and maintained. If you don't have one then you can't boot test but you > > still have to your best to keep it as close to working as possible. > > I was trying to get an idea if anyone uses the target. If people > want the target around, we can just ignore my patches to remove it. Please don't ever do this again. > Remember, though, it is a tradeoff. The msm7201 is fairly different > than the other MSM targets, and adds some effort to the consolidation > work across all of ARM. I think it would be better, overall, to drop > support for it, if there are no users. To me that would be a failure in design of the consolidation.. If we removed all the targets that are "different" we might not have many targets. > I'm pretty sure that the chips themselves are past end-of-life, so > there isn't going to be any new hardware based on the msm7201. There's still plenty of them floating around. > I'm curious what kinds of uses people have for their G1s. > > Speaking of old targets, it doesn't look like the mahimahi (Nexus One) > ever made it to the point of building. I have a dev board board on > the msm8650, and the chip support does work. It'd be nice to get > patches to get the Nexus One target to work as well. (the > board-mahimahi.c includes a board-mahimahi.h that isn't present). I'd love to have it working too. Daniel