linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] ARM: remove Intel iop33x and iop13xx support

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Message-ID: <20190809165731.GD5099@ninjato>
Date:   Fri, 9 Aug 2019 18:57:31 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     soc@...nel.org, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] ARM: remove Intel iop33x and iop13xx support

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 06:33:15PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> There are three families of IOP machines we support in Linux: iop32x
> (which includes EP80219), iop33x and iop13xx (aka IOP34x aka WP8134x).
> 
> All products we support in the kernel are based on the first of these,
> iop32x, the other families only ever supported the Intel reference
> boards but no actual machine anyone could ever buy.
> 
> While one could clearly make them all three work in a single kernel
> with some work, this takes the easy way out, removing the later two
> platforms entirely, under the assumption that there are no remaining
> users.
> 
> Earlier versions of OpenWRT and Debian both had support for iop32x
> but not the others, and they both dropped iop32x as well in their 2015
> releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de> # for I2C parts


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