linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: remove u300 platform

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaMZdUebQy7KOeAQz9wqGUWW3_PJUcD8N500NQZ0wXX2Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 09:34:44 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        SoC Team <soc@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: remove u300 platform

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 1:48 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>
> The Ericsson U300 platform was one of two ARM929 based SoC platforms for
> mobile phones in ST-Ericsson after the merger of Ericsson with ST-NXP
> into ST-Ericsson, the other one being the ST Nomadik.
>
> The platform was not widely adopted in Linux based systems and was
> replaced with the far superior ST-Ericsson U8500 in 2011, but Linus
> Walleij kept maintaining the code for the whole time.
>
> Linus continues to use the Nomadik machine, but decided to drop
> u300 from the kernel as part of this year's spring cleaning.
> Thanks for having maintained it all these years.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACRpkdbJkiHR9FSfJTH_5d_qRU1__dRXHM1TL40iqNRKbGQfrQ@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

I was planning to do this but you got there first :)

The reason I cannot work on it anymore is that the device
requires a special signing server to flash new kernels and
I don't have access to that, and we never created a U-boot or
similar for this device so anything needed to go in through
that flashing tool.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Will you queue the patch for ARM SoC?

Yours,
Linus Walleij