Re: [PATCH next 2/2] rockchip: remove support for Theobroma Systems RK3368 Lion

[Alex Bee <knaerzche@gmail.com>]

Am 20.06.24 um 12:24 schrieb Quentin Schulz:
> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
> 
> No meaningful changes were made to this SoM since February 2021. Nobody
> from Theobroma has booted anything recent on that product since July
> 2021 at the latest. The product isn't available to buy anymore and
> disappeared from our website.
> 
> This product is therefore unmaintained and it would be disingenuous to
> say the opposite, so drop support for RK3368 Lion.
> 
> If you're a user of Lion, feel free to revert this patch or contact our
> sales/support department.
That's a pretty interesting support-strategy. While I really don't care for
this board, please don't go ahead and remove the whole TPL-/SPL-part for
RK3368 in yet another pointless "cleanup"  only because lion was one the of
last/only user. Even if EOL RK3368 is getting finally interesting in
regards of display pipeline as we are finally getting a OSS gpu driver [0].
I'm planning to add a board which uses TPL/SPL soonish (when my rare spare
time allows).

Alex

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/frankbinns/linux-firmware/-/issues/1