linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/30] ARM: pxa: remove all unused boards&drivers

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Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:12:50 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] ARM: pxa: remove all unused boards&drivers

On Wed, 19 Oct 2022, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Most of the legacy PXA board files were marked as unused in linux-5.19 and
> can get removed in linux-6.2. There is support for pxa250/pxa270/pxa300
> using devicetree already, which supports a number of boards, but progress
> on converting the remaining ones has stalled over the past few years.
> 
> The two boards that are left in the tree for now are the three 'sharpsl'
> variants (spitz/akita/borzoi) and the 'gumstix' family of machines.
> Both of these are supported by qemu, which can be helpful for completing
> the DT conversion.
> 
> Only PXA25x and PXA27x are left with full boardfile support, so PXA300
> can get a lot simpler while still working with DT, and PXA310/320/93x
> can be removed entirely.
> 
> A good number of drivers become impossible to select after this, so
> each of these also get dropped. I'm including the driver patches in the
> series here and can either merge them through the soc tree, or they
> can get picked up by the individual subsystem maintainers. Since both
> the platform and the drivers get removed, the order should not matter.
> 
> Note that the patches here are generated with 'git format-patch -D'
> and don't contain the contents of removed files because of the
> significant size (the first patch is close to a megabyte).
> 
> Arnd Bergmann (30):
>   ARM: pxa: remove unused board files
>   ARM: pxa: remove irda leftover
>   ARM: pxa: remove unused pxa3xx-ulpi
>   ARM: pxa: drop pxa310/pxa320/pxa93x support
>   ARM: pxa: prune unused device support
>   power: remove z2_battery driver
>   power: remove tosa_battery driver
>   ata: remove palmld pata driver
>   backlight: remove pxa tosa support
>   input: remove pxa930_trkball driver
>   input: remove pxa930_rotary keyboard driver
>   input: remove zylonite touchscreen driver
>   pcmcia: remove unused pxa/sa1100 drivers
>   ASoC: pxa: remove unused board support
>   ALSA: remove ac97 bus support
>   mfd: remove wm97xx driver
>   input: remove wm97xx support
>   parport: remove ax88796 driver
>   power: remove pda_power supply driver
>   rtc: remove v3020 driver
>   mfd: remove toshiba tmio drivers
>   mfd: remove ucb1400 support
>   mtd: remove tmio_nand driver
>   mmc: remove tmio_mmc driver
>   fbdev: remove tmiofb driver
>   fbdev: remove w100fb driver
>   leds: remove asic3 driver
>   usb: remove ohci-tmio driver
>   w1: remove ds1wm driver
>   mfd: remove htc-pasic3 driver

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]