Re: [PATCH] topic: zynqmp: Remove zynqmp-xilinx-xdp platform

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

On 27-03-2025 12:05, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:00:50 +0100
> Michal Simek <michal.simek@amd.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't have this board, so don't really care, but was wondering:
>
>> On 3/26/25 17:15, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>> The "xdp" board went out of production years ago,
> I have the feeling that this is true for many boards in the U-Boot tree,
> pretty surely for like 80-90% of the Allwinner (sunxi) boards.
> So is there any particular reason other than lack of professional capacity
> for "official" maintenance to remove support? Because the removed code
> doesn't look like it would need a lot of hand holding, in fact it shares a
> lot with other ZynqMP boards that are still maintained. And I guess there
> might still be users out there who would benefit from general U-Boot fixes
> and improvements.

Very few XDP boards were produced. I'd be surprised if there are 10 
boards remaining in the world, and that's including the one Michal has...

>>> remove the remnants
>>> from the U-boot codebase as there is no point in maintaining them.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>    arch/arm/dts/Makefile                         |    1 -
>>>    .../zynqmp-topic-miamimp-xilinx-xdp-v1r1.dts  |  117 --
>>>    .../psu_init_gpl.c                            | 1030 -----------------
>>>    configs/xilinx_zynqmp_virt_defconfig          |    2 +-
>>>    4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1149 deletions(-)
>>>    delete mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/zynqmp-topic-miamimp-xilinx-xdp-v1r1.dts
>>>    delete mode 100644 board/xilinx/zynqmp/zynqmp-topic-miamimp-xilinx-xdp-v1r1/psu_init_gpl.c
>> I still have this board and happy to continue to maintain it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michal


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