Re: possible deprecation and removal of some old QEMU Arm machine types (pxa2xx, omap, sa1110)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>]

W dniu 15.02.2024 o 9:52 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov pisze:
>>>> If we want to actually go there, I think the best option for PCMCIA
>>>> support is likely to replace the entire "soc_common" pcmcia driver
>>>> with a simple drivers/pata/ storage driver and no support for
>>>> other cards.

>>> hmm, main usage for PCMCIA/CF in those devices was often something else,
>>> not storage,

>> Do we still support any non-storage CF devices that someone might
>> actually use? Do you have a specific example in mind? These are
>> the currently supported devices that I see:

> The Bluetooth over the PCMCIA UART worked last time I checked it and
> according to your grep it is still a valid user.

If we want to keep those pda devices in Linux kernel then dropping 
whatever PCMCIA which is not a storage sounds like sane way.

No one is going to use such old PDA as daily tool nowadays. And if they 
want then 6.6 LTS kernel would work better due to WiFi drivers being 
still present.

Bluetooth CF cards are old, v1.x tech. WiFi is 802.11b unless you manage 
to get one of those libertas_cs cards but they were rare even when new 
(I was involved in starting 2.6 driver for it). Camera cards had own 
out-of-tree drivers at that time.