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

[Alex Bee <knaerzche@gmail.com>]

Am 20.06.24 um 19:08 schrieb Tom Rini:
> 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.
>
I don't think the whole platform would get removed as it has several users
(and is maintained) - I just was a bit worried that TPL/SPL support could
get removed, but now noticed there is one more user: evb-px5. So: sorry for
noise.
So I will go the usual way via upstream DT (linux tree) addition and so
forth.