On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 9:23 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Samsung S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms are very old designs. S3C2416
> was introduced in 2008 and S3C6410 in 2009/2010. They are not widely
> available anymore - out-of-stock on FriendlyArm (one of manufacturers of
> boards) and only few specialist stores still offer them for quite a high
> price.
>
> The community around these platforms was not very active, so I suspect
> no one really uses them anymore. Maintenance takes precious time so
> there is little sense in keeping them alive if there are no real users.
>
> Let's mark all S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms as deprecated and mention
> possible removal in after 2022 for the first and 2024 for the lattere.
> The deprecation message will be as text in Kconfig, build message (not a
> warning though) and runtime print error.
>
> If there are any users, they might respond and postpone the removal.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Should I pick it up through the fixes branch for 5.18 if there are no
immediate objections, or do you prefer to just do it as part of your
normal samsung patches for 5.19?
If you have nothing else planned for mach-s3c, I can also add it
to the multiplatform branch that already touches the platform.
Arnd
