Dear Ezequiel Garcia, On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:16:33 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote: > > You don't clearly state whether your patch series keep compatibility > > with the 375 Z1 or not. And in fact, it doesn't keep compatibility with > > Z1. I'm fine with that, but then it means we should officially declare > > the Z1 support in mainline as dead, and get rid of the workarounds that > > applied only to 375 Z1. > > How many people have Z1 boards? And is someone actually using one for > something? Do we have any other reason to support Z1? > > FWIW, a v3.18-rc1 kernel built with mvebu_v7_defconfig, silently stalls > in the middle of the boot on Z1. Had to remove lots of compile time > options to make it boot. > > Before I start digging into this, maybe we can discuss your suggestion > to drop it. If nobody is booting this often enough, maybe nobody cares > about this, and it makes sense to drop the support? Marvell has always said they are not interested in having Z1 supported in mainline, except as a first step to start getting the 375 support in mainline. I have been waiting for everyone of us to have access to 375 A0 platforms, which is now the case. So I believe we can probably get rid of the 375 Z1 support entirely. It saddens me to know that a shiny development board in the office will no longer be useful for anything else but its own physical beauty, but I believe that's a normal retirement strategy for a very early development platform :-) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
