On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 8:28 AM Sicelo <absicsz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 01:38:11PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:20:31PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > > > Why that? There was a discussion and everyone agreed to remove omap2, > > > but not omap3 and later. > > > > I raised this question to make sure the things we maintain are still > > relevant. Developer and maintainers time is limited and we should not > > spend it on stuff that nobody uses. > > > > > There are some devices besides the PandaBoard. I am aware of these where > > > this is relevant: Epson BT200, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Pyra Handheld > > > (in production) and we are currently thinking about producing a tiny series > > > of the DM3730 based GTA04A5 with spare parts. > > > > > > And of course we want to participate from the latest and greatest upstream changes. > > > > Okay, if there are still real users for latest mainline kernels on this > > hardware, then the effort is justified. > > > > Regards, > > > > Joerg > > There is also the Nokia N900 phone (OMAP3) still seeing mainline > activity, as well as the Motorola Droid 4 (OMAP4), to name a few. I will > also be testing on the N900 around the weekend. The Beacon Embedded / LogicPD Torpedo and SOM-LV families (OMA35 and DM37) are still being sold and I still run various tests on them periodically. There is also an AM3517 that I still periodically test. Once Micron kills off the RAM and they run out of supply and Beacon cannot sell them anymore, I'll submit a patch to remove the unsupported / EOL boards. > > Thanks to everyone for the amazing work. Thank you for all this. I haven't been as active lately, but I have been following this. adam > > Sincerely > Sicelo >
