Re: [PATCH for-9.2 00/53] arm: Drop deprecated boards

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

Hi,

On 3/9/24 18:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
> This patchset removes the various Arm machines which we deprecated
> for the 9.0 release and are therefore allowed to remove for the 9.2
> release:
>   akita, borzoi, cheetah, connex, mainstone, n800, n810,
>   spitz, terrier, tosa, verdex, z2

> The series includes removal of some code which while not strictly
> specific to these machines was in practice used only by them:
>   * the OneNAND flash memory device
>   * the PCMCIA subsystem
>   * the MUSB USB2.0 OTG USB controller chip (hcd-musb)

> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
> Peter Maydell (53):
>    hw/input: Drop ADS7846 device
>    hw/adc: Remove MAX111X device
>    hw/gpio: Remove MAX7310 device
>    hw/input: Remove tsc2005 touchscreen controller
>    hw/input: Remove tsc210x device
>    hw/rtc: Remove twl92230 device
>    hw/input: Remove lm832x device
>    hw/usb: Remove tusb6010 USB controller
>    hw/usb: Remove MUSB USB host controller

Some of these devices are user-creatable and only rely on a bus
(not a particular removed machine), so could potentially be used
on other maintained machines which expose a similar bus.
We don't have in-tree (tests/) examples, but I wonder if it is OK
to remove them without first explicitly deprecating them in
docs/about/deprecated.rst. I wouldn't surprise users when 9.2 is
release. Maybe this isn't an issue, but I prefer to mention it
now to be sure.

Regards,

Phil.