On 31/07/2024 19:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > We removed a lot of the unused board files at the beginning of > 2023, and I'd like to plan ahead for other hardware and feature > support that can be removed after the next stable kernel > (linux-6.12). > > TL;DR: I think we can deprecate toolchain support for ARMv4 > (pre-thumb), iWMMXt, BE32 and OABI (-mabi=apcs-gnu) *if* that > helps gcc-15, as we'll likely not need those any more after > gcc-14 will be too old to build new kernels (ca. 2030). > > I hope we can keep reducing the number of non-DT board files a > lot further, but I still expect this to take several more years > before it is DT-only. Please reply here if you are using any > of them so we can spare them once more. All this (and what was below the quote) looks reasonable to me, including Samsung S3C64xx and keeping support for RPi 1 (I was using it till ~3 years ago). Best regards, Krzysztof
