From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from down.free-electrons.com ([37.187.137.238]:56962 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752772AbaKCV3g (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2014 16:29:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 22:29:23 +0100 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Ezequiel Garcia Cc: Jason Cooper , Daniel Lezcano , Thomas Gleixner , Wim Van Sebroeck , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Nadav Haklai , Tawfik Bayouk , Lior Amsalem , Gregory Clement Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Make Armada 375 use the reference clock when possible Message-ID: <20141103222923.53b2870b@free-electrons.com> In-Reply-To: <5448F7F1.1080509@free-electrons.com> References: <1413984884-20273-1-git-send-email-ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com> <20141022155614.04d33791@free-electrons.com> <5448F1A1.9040404@free-electrons.com> <20141023142657.6b4d61fb@free-electrons.com> <5448F7F1.1080509@free-electrons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Dear Ezequiel Garcia, On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:43:29 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > Marvell has always said they are not interested in having Z1 supported > > in mainline, except as a first step to start getting the 375 support in > > mainline. I have been waiting for everyone of us to have access to 375 > > A0 platforms, which is now the case. So I believe we can probably get > > rid of the 375 Z1 support entirely. > > > > It saddens me to know that a shiny development board in the office will > > no longer be useful for anything else but its own physical beauty, but > > I believe that's a normal retirement strategy for a very early > > development platform :-) > > > > I'm afraid I have news for you. Even now, the board is almost unusable, > as the mvpp2 network driver only supports A0 (Z1 support was never even > planned). > > So you have a NAS development board without network... sounds pretty > useless to me :) Who needs network these days? :-) Well, joke aside, I'm fine with seeing the Armada 375 Z1 support go away. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com