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Fri, 9 Oct 2026 10:55:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: AKEFTclLsUFV Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:55:17 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: soc@lists.linux.dev Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Aaro Koskinen" , "A. Sverdlin" , "Alexandre Belloni" , "Alexandre Torgue" , "Andi Shyti" , "Andrew Lunn" , "Daniel Baluta" , "Daniel Mack" , "Frank Li" , "Giulio Benetti" , "Gregory Clement" , "Kevin Hilman" , "Linus Walleij" , "Nicolas Ferre" , "Nicolas Pitre" , "Vladimir Murzin" , "Vladimir Zapolskiy" , "Dario Binacchi" , "Kyungmin Park" , "Ralph Siemsen" , "Russell King" , "Sebastian Hesselbarth" , "Stefan Agner" , "Tony Lindgren" Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2afd5f78-0174-4955-8c1b-be18aea3800b@app.fastmail.com> References: <2afd5f78-0174-4955-8c1b-be18aea3800b@app.fastmail.com> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] soc: deprecated platform removal Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, Sep 28, 2026, at 23:46, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The following changes since commit df2908090cda368b01ff43709f51890076c56157: > > Linux 7.3-rc2 (2026-09-06 15:07:20 -0700) > > are available in the Git repository at: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git > tags/board-remove-for-7.4 > > for you to fetch changes up to 1b200c44654d654bd0d04cbf55823b9e275b2a56: > > ARM: axxia: remove entire platform (2026-09-28 21:43:31 +0200) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > soc: deprecated platform removal > > In the 7.3 kernel, I marked a number of platforms and features as > deprecated, with the plan to keep these around for the LTS kernel, but > remove them in 7.4, see [1]. It was pointed out to me at LPC in Prague this week that 7.3 is most likely not the LTS release after all, so we should wait another release before actually removing the code in order to keep it all alive in the 7.4LTS kernel. I'll rebase this on top of 7.4-rc1 and resubmit for 7.5. Arnd