On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:12 PM Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > recently we wanted to update xilinx intc driver and we found that function > > which we wanted to remove is still wired by ancient Xilinx PowerPC > > platforms. Here is the thread about it. > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/48d3232d-0f1d-42ea-3109-f44bbabfa2e8@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > I have been talking about it internally and there is no interest in these > > platforms and it is also orphan for quite a long time. None is really > > running/testing these platforms regularly that's why I think it makes sense > > to remove them also with drivers which are specific to this platform. > > > > U-Boot support was removed in 2017 without anybody complain about it > > https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx/commit/98f705c9cefdfdba62c069821bbba10273a0a8ed > > > > Based on current ppc/next. > > > > If anyone has any objection about it, please let me know. > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > This looks reasonable to me as well, in particular as the code only > supports the two > ppc44x virtex developer boards and no commercial products. > > It does raise a follow-up question about ppc40x though: is it time to > retire all of it? Who knows? I have in possession nice WD My Book Live, based on this architecture, and I won't it gone from modern kernel support. OTOH I understand that amount of real users not too big. Ah, and I have Amiga board, but that one is being used only for testing, so, I don't care much. > The other ppc405 machines appear to have seen even fewer updates after the > OpenBlockS 600 got added in 2011, so it's possible nobody is using them any more > with modern kernels. > > I see that OpenWRT removed both ppc40x and ppc44x exactly a year ago after > they had not been maintained for years. > > However, 44x (in its ppc476 incarnation) is clearly still is used > through the fsp2 platform, > and can not be deprecated at least until that is known to have stopped > getting kernel > updates. > > Arnd -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
