Re: [PATCH 00/15] ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy sh73a0/kzm9g and r8a7740/armadillo

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Simon,

On Friday 19 June 2015 12:41:00 Simon Horman wrote:
> [ CC Linus, Laurent, linux-gpio ]
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:31:16AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 	Hi Simon, Magnus,
> > 
> > The KZM-A9-GT and Armadillo-800 EVA boards are now sufficiently
> > supported by DT-based and board-less SH-Mobile AG5 (sh73a0) and R-Mobile
> > A1 (r8a7740) multi-platform kernels.
> > 
> > Lacking areas are:
> >   - USB (it does't work in legacy, neither),
> >   - HDMI on armadillo (it doesn't work in legacy, neither),
> >   - Camera on armadillo (we don't care),
> >   
> >   - LCDC:
> >       - on armadillo, this is supported by the board staging code,
> >       - on kzm9g, the LCDC is wired to the legacy INTC, which is not
> > 	
> > 	planned to be supported with DT,
> > 	
> >   - DMAC/IPMMU (no DT bindings are planned).
> > 
> > Hence this patch series removes legacy board and SoC code for
> > sh73a0/kzm9g and r8a7740/armadillo.
> > 
> > It consists of 4 parts:
> >   - Patches 1-4 remove legacy support for kzm9g (board code, defconfig,
> >   
> >     dtb) and sh73a0,
> >   
> >   - Patches 5-8 remove legacy support for armadillo (board code,
> >   
> >     defconfig, dtb) and r8a7740,
> >   
> >   - Patches 9-11 remove generic shmobile support code (dma-register.h,
> >   
> >     legacy PM Domains, zboot) that became unused by the removal of
> >     legacy sh73a0/kzm9g and r8a7740/armadillo,
> >   
> >   - Patches 12-15 remove legacy sh73a0 and r8a7740 support in the
> >   
> >     pinctrl drivers.
> > 
> > Dependencies:
> >   - This is against next-20150617,
> >   - To keep up with existing LCDC functionality for armadillo-legacy,
> >   
> >     the r8a7740/armadillo part (and later parts) depends on "[PATCH v2
> >     0/7] staging: board: armadillo800eva: Board staging for
> >     sh_mobile_lcdc_fb" (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/17/115).
> >     However, it can be applied as-is now, and board staging can he
> >     handled in parallel (if at all).
> > 
> > Thanks for applying!
> > 
> > Geert Uytterhoeven (15):
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy board code for KZM-A9-GT
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy kzm9g_defconfig
> >   ARM: shmobile: Drop sh73a0-kzm9g.dtb for legacy builds
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy SoC code for SH-Mobile AG5
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy board code for Armadillo-800 EVA
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy armadillo800eva_defconfig
> >   ARM: shmobile: Drop r8a7740-armadillo800eva.dtb for legacy builds
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove legacy SoC code for R-Mobile A1
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove unused dma-register.h
> >   ARM: shmobile: R-Mobile: Remove legacy PM Domain code
> >   ARM: shmobile: Remove obsolete zboot support
> 
> I have queued up the above patches for v4.3.
> 
> >   pinctrl: sh-pfc: sh73a0: Remove obsolete multi-platform check
> >   pinctrl: sh-pfc: Remove obsolete sh73a0 platform_device_id entry
> >   pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7740: Remove obsolete multi-platform check
> >   pinctrl: sh-pfc: Remove obsolete r8a7740 platform_device_id entry
> 
> As the above patches are sh-pfc patches they would typically
> be steered through Linus's tree via Laurent. If they wish
> to take that path then I'm happy for this to be attached:
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>

And

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

> FWIW the above path is the one that the removal of mackerel/sh7372 took.
> 
> Alternatively, I am happy to take the above sh-pfc patches through
> my tree but I would like to do so with an Ack from at least Linus.

I'm fine with both. I think it would be easier to applied them through your 
tree if Linus is fine with that. Those patches shouldn't generate any 
conflict.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart