linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: dts: Remove MPC5xxx platforms

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Date:   Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:26:37 +0200
From:   Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: dts: Remove MPC5xxx platforms

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:38:08 +1100
Stephen Rothwell sfr@...b.auug.org.au wrote:

>Hi Rob,
>
>On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:34:56 -0500 Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> The mpc5xxx platforms have had dts warnings for some time which no one
>> seems to care to fix, so let's just remove the dts files.
>> 
>> According to Arnd:
>> "Specifically, MPC5200B has a 15 year lifetime, which ends in
>> 11 months from now. The original bplan/Genesi Efika 5K2 was
>> quite popular at the time it came out, and there are probably
>> still some of those hanging around, but they came with Open
>> Firmware rather than relying on the dts files that ship with the
>> kernel.
>> 
>> Grant Likely was the original maintainer for MPC52xx until 2011,
>> Anatolij Gustschin is still listed as maintainer since then but hasn't
>> been active in it for a while either. Anatolij can probably best judge
>> which of these boards are still in going to be used with future kernels,
>> but I suspect once you start removing bits from 52xx, the newer
>> but less common 512x platform can go away as well."
>> 
>> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@...x.de>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
>> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
>> ---
>> Sending this out as a feeler to see if anyone cares. If anyone does, 
>> please fix the warnings.

I've sent patches to fix the warnings.
  
Thanks,

Anatolij