From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B6E0C433E0 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F682082D for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726593AbhAJP5w (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:57:52 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:42774 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726069AbhAJP5v (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:57:51 -0500 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF7EF2082D for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:57:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1610294230; bh=3FDUH0OSyYgBrcIOyENo5ukLKoMIfT4kZFDXBO5Camk=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=TMVeKiSBpwns74kzt9Nh84lidntW3sLr1Q/n6oXG2RhlviRthpqbaxx11FF6oZwmq bQ1FU58xsDo5n/VvrpjQ0Y+RDYZWmmz52zgcgjRQ18SSomDzqsY04pHBlmFwW+/qJ4 /J1jzLbEu435MXDL3yHs6II1ZNjamiR3lQZBUGQmM5Y7NhzBnkzxzjkIQzLFCzaSS0 d+ZiJ970fKHIsqnRKfME8nd6vKcAu8C8MdW94WN0eihJc+LibFExbSIy4lDjsBQnEE osk7wCTIEQonRXQvOYPo6kHeIF19QF5GZTpE3Do5akBXV6ih5U1Q4JKS6kf2wkpMwA rBquzE8zUsDMQ== Received: by mail-oi1-f179.google.com with SMTP id w124so17569785oia.6 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:57:10 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530XliGspflo6DEaLoYB9zdoG7LruGxT8m8sxpdsYT2z8yprX4+F SXhC4zMVrjDtFUOVI9udYPpW8Jy+o7j0xmeHOs0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzknFEC+j7Q9V/sFP4GhccP1jg4uYM43kULqiUljW+KHB4bRWj0SAFfbKNabReOiysIIDmVTZk5oKbTksiGJfQ= X-Received: by 2002:aca:e103:: with SMTP id y3mr7761427oig.11.1610294230145; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:57:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 16:56:53 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead To: Neil Armstrong Cc: Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Krzysztof Adamski , Oleksij Rempel , Baruch Siach , Russell King - ARM Linux , Daniel Tang , =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine=2DK=C3=B6nig?= , Jamie Iles , Barry Song , Viresh Kumar , Linus Walleij , Jonas Jensen , Marc Gonzalez , Hartley Sweeten , Lubomir Rintel , Shawn Guo , Alex Elder , Alexander Shiyan , Koen Vandeputte , Hans Ulli Kroll , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Wei Xu , Steven Rostedt , Yoshinori Sato , Mark Salter , Michael Ellerman , Geert Uytterhoeven , Thomas Bogendoerfer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:51 PM Neil Armstrong wr= ote: > > Hi Arnd, > > Le 08/01/2021 =C3=A0 23:55, Arnd Bergmann a =C3=A9crit : > > After v5.10 was officially declared an LTS kernel, I had a look around > > the Arm platforms that look like they have not seen any patches from > > their maintainers or users that are actually running the hardware for > > at least five years (2015 or earlier). I made some statistics and lists > > for my lwn.net article last year [1], so I'd thought I'd share a summar= y > > here for discussion about what we should remove. As I found three > > years ago when I removed several CPU architectures, it makes sense > > to do this in bulk, to simplify a scripted search for device drivers, h= eader > > files and Kconfig options that become unused in the process. > > ... > > > * oxnas -- added in 2016, but already old then, few changes later > > There is still active users in the openwrt community, so it would be good= s to keep it for now. > And we have an OX820 board in KerneCI so it's still maintained & boot-tes= ted. Ok, taken off the list now. Thanks for the clarification, Arnd