linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal

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Date:   Tue, 4 Apr 2023 16:43:07 +0200
From:   Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        soc@...nel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-oxnas@...ups.io" <linux-oxnas@...ups.io>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal

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