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([2a01:e0a:982:cbb0:5136:bca8:1616:ba77]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y6-20020adff6c6000000b002ceac2ccc4asm12489979wrp.23.2023.04.04.07.43.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Apr 2023 07:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 16:43:07 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.9.1 From: Neil Armstrong Reply-To: neil.armstrong@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Content-Language: en-US To: Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , soc@kernel.org, Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Russell King Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-oxnas@groups.io" , Linus Walleij , Daniel Golle , Krzysztof Kozlowski References: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> <86d63038-e3f5-4c03-b904-a26761b0578d@app.fastmail.com> Organization: Linaro Developer Services In-Reply-To: <86d63038-e3f5-4c03-b904-a26761b0578d@app.fastmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/04/2023 16:37, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 09:42, Neil Armstrong wrote: >> With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable, >> associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to >> dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed. >> >> In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present >> in an ARM config file. >> >> For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable >> in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the >> vendor (defunct for years) sources. >> >> The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means >> support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026. >> >> If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll >> be happy to hand off maintainance. >> >> The plan is to apply the first 4 patches first, then the drivers >> followed by bindings. Finally the MAINTAINANCE entry can be removed. >> > > I merged all four into the soc tree now, thanks! Thanks for handling this ! Neil > > Arnd