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=-9.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 3A6DAC07E99 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2021 18:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C73A60238 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2021 18:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230328AbhGISti (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:49:38 -0400 Received: from baldur.buserror.net ([165.227.176.147]:47032 "EHLO baldur.buserror.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229546AbhGISth (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jul 2021 14:49:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1180 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:49:37 EDT Received: from [2601:449:8480:af0::97c7] by baldur.buserror.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m1vCw-0005iy-9K; Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:26:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3a17e91259b4f7538530ab652eb2a72fddbbc170.camel@buserror.net> From: Scott Wood To: Paul Gortmaker , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Michael Ellerman , Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:26:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20210111082823.99562-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <20210111082823.99562-1-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Organization: Red Hat Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.40.0-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2601:449:8480:af0::97c7 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, paulus@samba.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: oss@buserror.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Retire remaining WindRiver embedded SBC BSPs X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 08 May 2019 21:11:16 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on baldur.buserror.net) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 03:28 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > In v2.6.27 (2008, 917f0af9e5a9) the sbc8260 support was implicitly > retired by not being carried forward through the ppc --> powerpc > device tree transition. > > Then, in v3.6 (2012, b048b4e17cbb) we retired the support for the > sbc8560 boards. > > Next, in v4.18 (2017, 3bc6cf5a86e5) we retired the support for the > 2006 vintage sbc834x boards. > > The sbc8548 and sbc8641d boards were maybe 1-2 years newer than the > sbc834x boards, but it is also 3+ years later, so it makes sense to > now retire them as well - which is what is done here. > > These two remaining WR boards were based on the Freescale MPC8548-CDS > and the MPC8641D-HPCN reference board implementations.  Having had the > chance to use these and many other Fsl ref boards, I know this:  The > Freescale reference boards were typically produced in limited quantity > and primarily available to BSP developers and hardware designers, and > not likely to have found a 2nd life with hobbyists and/or collectors. > > It was good to have that BSP code subjected to mainline review and > hence also widely available back in the day. But given the above, we > should probably also be giving serious consideration to retiring > additional similar age/type reference board platforms as well. > > I've always felt it is important for us to be proactive in retiring > old code, since it has a genuine non-zero carrying cost, as described > in the 930d52c012b8 merge log.  But for the here and now, we just > clean up the remaining BSP code that I had added for SBC platforms. Acked-by: Scott Wood -Scott