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While there was > a lot of development work going into Cortex-M support from 2011 to 2016, > this largely stopped when it became clear that Zephyr and other RTOS > had taken over that market. To date, the only Cortex-M based based > microcontroller boards supported upstream are reference implementations. > > Schedule these for removal after the next LTS kernel, so if any users > remain that want to update their kernels, they can stay on that > version for a few years before having to maintain the platform support > out of tree. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > --- > arch/arm/Kconfig | 8 ++++++-- > arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig | 4 +++- > arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig | 4 +++- for imx part. Acked-by: Frank Li