On 07/04/2022 09:23, Krzysztof Kozlowski 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> > > --- > > Changes since v1: > 1. Language: in->for removal. > 2. Don't show pragma with COMPILE_TEST. > 3. Add Acks. > I forgot to add important part in changelog - I moved the s3c64xx removal to 2024. There was an interest from Mark to keep the platform running and it is a newer SoC than s3c64xx. Best regards, Krzysztof
