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 vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06852EB64DD for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232823AbjF3Rst (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:48:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:55062 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232387AbjF3Rsr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:48:47 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5209F2D4A; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:48:46 -0700 (PDT) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6600,9927,10757"; a="352275048" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.01,171,1684825200"; d="scan'208";a="352275048" Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 30 Jun 2023 10:48:45 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6600,9927,10757"; a="787792137" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.01,171,1684825200"; d="scan'208";a="787792137" Received: from smile.fi.intel.com ([10.237.72.54]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 Jun 2023 10:48:36 -0700 Received: from andy by smile.fi.intel.com with local (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1qFIET-001AaS-1x; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:48:33 +0300 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:48:33 +0300 From: Andy Shevchenko To: Neil Armstrong Cc: Michael Turquette , Stephen Boyd , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Daniel Lezcano , Thomas Gleixner , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Giuseppe Cavallaro , Alexandre Torgue , Jose Abreu , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Maxime Coquelin , Linus Walleij , Bartosz Golaszewski , Sebastian Reichel , Marc Zyngier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-oxnas@groups.io, Arnd Bergmann , Daniel Golle , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Sebastian Reichel Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] ARM: oxnas support removal Message-ID: References: <20230630-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-fb6ab3dea87c@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230630-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-fb6ab3dea87c@linaro.org> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 06:58:25PM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote: > With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable, > associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to > dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed. > > In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present > in an ARM config file. > > For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable > in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the > vendor (defunct for years) sources. > > The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means > support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026. > > If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll > be happy to hand off maintainance. > > It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time > to get over! > > Now arch/arm parts are removed, now it's time to remove the remaining stuff. For all non-DT patches Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko I always like negative statistics of a magnitude order! -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko