Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: dts: Remove MPC5xxx platforms

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Hi Rob,

On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:34:56 -0500 Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Sending this out as a feeler to see if anyone cares. If anyone does, 
> please fix the warnings.

Thanks.  However .. :-)

FATAL ERROR: Couldn't open "mpc5200b.dtsi": No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/home/sfr/next/next/scripts/Makefile.lib:358: arch/powerpc/boot/dts/digsy_mtc.dtb] Error 1

$ grep -wrl mpc5200b.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/digsy_mtc.dts

missed one :-)
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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