On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 03:10:26PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > 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. +Cc: Christian Lamparter, whom I owe for that WD box. > > 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 > > -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
