On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Wu, Aaron <Aaron.Wu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> > On 02/22/2018 07:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Add blackfin to that list, there have been no responses from the >> >> > maintainers last time I posted patches to remove DSA header files, >> >> > so we had to go these through the networking tree. Have not see a >> >> > Blackfin pull request since forever, Aaron himself seems to agree >> >> > this should be >> >> > removed: >> >> > >> >> > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/04345.html >> >> >> > >> > I'm sorry to confirm that ADI can no longer provide maintenance for >> > Blackfin in Kernel community. We will try to provide a patch to remove it. >> > Apologize... and sincerely thanks to community and all used and >> > contributed to Blackfin Linux. Looking forward we are working on >> > supporting Linux from the newer SC5xx mutli-core processors with ARM and >> SHARC DSPs in it. >> >> Thanks a lot for your reply. I already compiled a list for files related to all of the >> architectures under discussion, but it will certainly help to have a patch from you >> as well, then I can see if one of use missed any files. >> >> I'm looking forward to your patches for the SHARC ARM platform, I was already >> wondering about why we don't already have that platform in Linux. >> Let me know if you need any help getting that port ready for inclusion. > > Thanks again, Arnd and the Community. >> >> One more question: I see that there are a number of drivers that are only used >> on blackfin today. Do you know if any of those are shared with SHARC and still >> needed, or can we remove everything related to blackfin? > > Some of them can be shared with the ARM-SHARCs processors, as of now > we may go ahead to remove everything, when merging SHARC we can revert > them back, probably with new file names without "bfin", if this sounds right. Yes, sounds good. That also gives us a chance to review the drivers again and update them to modern interfaces where necessary. At the minimum, we will replace the traditional platform_data based probing with DT properties. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-metag" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
