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

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:03:26PM +0200, Alex Bee wrote:
> 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).

Please update the MAINTAINERS file for the relevant to your future
platform, or even better possibly get a skeleton of this platform
posted. Thanks.

-- 
Tom

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