From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-20.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BEDC4338F for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 08:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AAA60EBC for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 08:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236772AbhHDIvT (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2021 04:51:19 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.189]:13274 "EHLO szxga03-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236692AbhHDIvS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2021 04:51:18 -0400 Received: from dggemv711-chm.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.55]) by szxga03-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4GflhN2Y9tz82dS; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 16:46:12 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggema764-chm.china.huawei.com (10.1.198.206) by dggemv711-chm.china.huawei.com (10.1.198.66) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256) id 15.1.2176.2; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 16:51:03 +0800 Received: from [10.174.185.179] (10.174.185.179) by dggema764-chm.china.huawei.com (10.1.198.206) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256) id 15.1.2176.2; Wed, 4 Aug 2021 16:51:01 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: remove zte zx platform List-Id: To: Arnd Bergmann , , , CC: Jun Nie , Shawn Guo , "Arnd Bergmann" References: <20210120124812.2800027-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20210120124812.2800027-4-arnd@kernel.org> From: Zenghui Yu Message-ID: <2ce5cd86-ed0d-3e5f-2ab4-717e055dfef4@huawei.com> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 16:51:01 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210120124812.2800027-4-arnd@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.185.179] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems702-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.179) To dggema764-chm.china.huawei.com (10.1.198.206) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/1/20 20:48, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > The ZTE ZX set-top-box SoC platform was added in 2015 by Jun Nie, with > Baoyou Xie and Shawn Guo subsequently becoming maintainers after the > addition of the 64-bit variant. > > However, the only machines that were ever supported upstream are the > reference designs, not actual set-top-box devices that would benefit > from this support. All ZTE set-top-boxes from the past few years seem > to be based on third-party SoCs. While there is very little information > about zx296702 and zx296718 on the web, I found some references to other > chips from the same family, such as zx296716 and zx296719, which were > never submitted for upstream support. Finally, there is no support for > the GPU on either of them, with the lima and panfrost device drivers > having been added after work on the zx platform had stopped. > > Shawn confirmed that he has not seen any interest in this platform for > the past four years, and that it can be removed. > > Thanks to Jun and Shawn for maintaining this platform over the past > five years. > > Cc: Jun Nie > Cc: Shawn Guo > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann [...] > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index aeef69cbc7ec..54b5e6dee017 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -2704,40 +2704,6 @@ S: Maintained > F: arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/z2.h > F: arch/arm/mach-pxa/z2.c > > -ARM/ZTE ARCHITECTURE > -M: Jun Nie > -M: Shawn Guo > -L: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org (moderated for non-subscribers) > -S: Maintained [...] > -F: include/dt-bindings/clock/zx2967*.h include/dt-bindings/clock/zx296718-clock.h hadn't been removed. > -F: include/dt-bindings/soc/zte,*.h include/dt-bindings/soc/zte,pm_domains.h neither. > -DRM DRIVERS FOR ZTE ZX > -M: Shawn Guo > -L: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > -S: Maintained > -T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc > -F: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/zte,vou.txt > -F: drivers/gpu/drm/zte/ The whole zxdrm driver is still in tree, which smells like a leftover. > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms > index 6eecdef538bd..ec3c0cb27d1e 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms > @@ -317,12 +317,6 @@ config ARCH_XGENE > help > This enables support for AppliedMicro X-Gene SOC Family > > -config ARCH_ZX > - bool "ZTE ZX SoC Family" > - select PINCTRL > - help > - This enables support for ZTE ZX SoC Family And ARCH_ZX is still selected in arm64's defconfig (which is why I jumped in this series).