Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] docs: arm: marvell: drop some dead links

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On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 02:29:11PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Just remove these; there's good chance there wasn't anything useful
> > there anyway.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@xxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > - Adjust for removal of "[PATCH 1/5] docs: arm: marvell: turn the automatic
> >   links into labels"
> > - Split off the hunk that fixes 38x functional spec link
> >
> >  Documentation/arm/marvel.rst | 25 -------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/arm/marvel.rst b/Documentation/arm/marvel.rst
> > index 16ab2eb085b86..502a1b89a2c85 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/arm/marvel.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/arm/marvel.rst
> > @@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ Kirkwood family
> >                  - Product Brief  : http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/kirkwood/assets/88F6281-004_ver1.pdf
> >                  - Hardware Spec  : http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/kirkwood/assets/HW_88F6281_OpenSource.pdf
> >                  - Functional Spec: http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/kirkwood/assets/FS_88F6180_9x_6281_OpenSource.pdf
> > -  Homepage:
> > -	http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/kirkwood/
> >    Core:
> >  	Feroceon 88fr131 ARMv5 compatible
> >    Linux kernel mach directory:
> > @@ -126,7 +124,6 @@ EBU Armada family
> >  	- 88F6820 Armada 385
> >  	- 88F6828 Armada 388
> >  
> > -    - Product infos:   http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-38x/
> 
> So these URLs do still exist in the Wayback machine; the above is
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180829171124/http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-38x/
> for example.  If we delete the links, we make it harder for any
> interested person to ever find them.  Assuming that we want to keep
> information about these product families in the documentation at all,
> I'd think that we would want to have the online information as well.  So
> I'd replace these with wayback links, or else just leave them as they
> are so that sufficiently motivated people can look them up themselves...

The kirkwood processors are old, but they were used in NAS
devices. They tend to have a long life time, and people do put Debian
on them. Armada-38x is definitely still in use in NAS boxes.

If we can have working links, that would be great.

   Andrew



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