Re: [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: xilinxfb: remove the driver

["Pandey, Radhey Shyam" <radheys@amd.com>]

On 11/9/2026 7:17 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 10:39:01PM +0530, Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
>> Remove xilinx framebuffer soft IP driver. This IP core relies on Xilinx
>> Platform Studio (XPS) and the ISE Design suite, both of which were
>> discontinued by Xilinx years ago. Furthermore, modern AMD toolchains
>> (Vivado Design Suite and Vitis) provide no support for the legacy PLB
>> (Processor Local Bus) architecture used by these cores. As a result,
>> no new hardware designs can be built using this IP.
>>
>> Nothing in the tree document the driver compatible strings. Given the
>> complete obsolescence of the supporting hardware development tools
>> and the lack of upstream users, remove the dead driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@amd.com>
>> ---
> 
> You can include here defconfig update.
> 

Thanks for the review. Based on Michal’s suggestion during the internal 
review, I left this out of the current series and plan to send defconfig 
update as a follow-up once this series is applied as it will go through 
his tree.

Thanks,
Radhey