On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:37 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > [ add Martin (if cyrius.com address is still valid) ] > > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > There are three families of IOP machines we support in Linux: iop32x > > > (which includes EP80219), iop33x and iop13xx (aka IOP34x aka WP8134x). > > > > > > All products we support in the kernel are based on the first of these, > > > iop32x, the other families only ever supported the Intel reference > > > boards but no actual machine anyone could ever buy. > > > > > > While one could clearly make them all three work in a single kernel > > > with some work, this takes the easy way out, removing the later two > > > platforms entirely, under the assumption that there are no remaining > > > users. > > > > > > Earlier versions of OpenWRT and Debian both had support for iop32x > > > but not the others, and they both dropped iop32x as well in their 2015 > > > releases. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > I'm just guessing that iop32x is still needed, and the other two are > > > not. If anyone disagrees with that assessment, let me know so we > > > can come up with an alternative approach. > > > > I'm not sure who would scream if iop32x support went away as well, but > > I have not followed this space in years hence copying Martin. > > > > In any event: > > > > Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> > > Those of us who have and still run Thecus N2100's, for example? Nice! Good to hear.
