From: Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>,
soc@kernel.org, Nikita Shubin <nikita.shubin@maquefel.me>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Hubert Feurstein <hubert.feurstein@contec.at>,
Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: ep93xx: remove MaverickCrunch support
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:40:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4-wQpKLtSj0xfNUXXLhbtN1wC051jpRneAuLYOi1riZfiinw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4-wQqCL1S-GYu7VKJeTT37wh=rR=SMUuwgKiXnnn_Y=uydOA@mail.gmail.com>
I forward opinion from people currently producing and supporting EP93XX boards:
From: Technologic Systems Support Team <support@embeddedarm.com>
To: martinwguy@gmail.com
Cc: jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com
> I expect our customers would care if support was dropped.
> Unfortunately I don't know to what extent. I'd like to bring
> Jerome Oufella of Savoir Faire Linux into the conversation here,
> as he runs the software company who most of our customers
> contract through when they need a modern Linux kernel running
> on one of our Cirrus Logic EP93XX series single board computers.
> I expect his opinion will be more valuable than mine.
>
> Good morning Jerome,
>
> A member of the Linux Kernel Development community reached out
> to us this morning letting us know the community has suggested
> dropping support for the MavericCrunch FPU on the EP9302 processor.
> Would this impact any of the development your team has been doing
> for some of our mutual customers?
From: Jerome Oufella<jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com>
> I am aware of a few companies who rely on variants of the TS-7250
> running not-too-old LTS releases (4.19, 5.4) to cope with their patch policies.
>
> With Linux 5.10 being the next "Super LTS", this presumably brings its
> support lifespan until about 2030, which (I believe) they would be
> comfortable with considering the age of the platform.
>
> Jerome Oufella
> Vice-President, Technologies
> www.savoirfairelinux.com
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>,
Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>,
soc@kernel.org, Nikita Shubin <nikita.shubin@maquefel.me>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Hubert Feurstein <hubert.feurstein@contec.at>,
Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: ep93xx: remove MaverickCrunch support
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 13:40:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAL4-wQpKLtSj0xfNUXXLhbtN1wC051jpRneAuLYOi1riZfiinw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20210803114058.1qDkIzvedtfq8PpzfWF8f97FCzxNrBdxCsv1b3Jgi9s@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL4-wQqCL1S-GYu7VKJeTT37wh=rR=SMUuwgKiXnnn_Y=uydOA@mail.gmail.com>
I forward opinion from people currently producing and supporting EP93XX boards:
From: Technologic Systems Support Team <support@embeddedarm.com>
To: martinwguy@gmail.com
Cc: jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com
> I expect our customers would care if support was dropped.
> Unfortunately I don't know to what extent. I'd like to bring
> Jerome Oufella of Savoir Faire Linux into the conversation here,
> as he runs the software company who most of our customers
> contract through when they need a modern Linux kernel running
> on one of our Cirrus Logic EP93XX series single board computers.
> I expect his opinion will be more valuable than mine.
>
> Good morning Jerome,
>
> A member of the Linux Kernel Development community reached out
> to us this morning letting us know the community has suggested
> dropping support for the MavericCrunch FPU on the EP9302 processor.
> Would this impact any of the development your team has been doing
> for some of our mutual customers?
From: Jerome Oufella<jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com>
> I am aware of a few companies who rely on variants of the TS-7250
> running not-too-old LTS releases (4.19, 5.4) to cope with their patch policies.
>
> With Linux 5.10 being the next "Super LTS", this presumably brings its
> support lifespan until about 2030, which (I believe) they would be
> comfortable with considering the age of the platform.
>
> Jerome Oufella
> Vice-President, Technologies
> www.savoirfairelinux.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-03 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-02 14:11 [PATCH] ARM: ep93xx: remove MaverickCrunch support Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-02 15:45 ` Martin Guy
2021-08-02 15:45 ` Martin Guy
2021-08-02 15:45 ` Martin Guy
2021-08-03 11:40 ` Martin Guy [this message]
2021-08-03 11:40 ` Martin Guy
2021-08-03 11:40 ` Martin Guy
2021-08-03 11:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 11:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 15:52 ` Jerome Oufella
2021-08-03 15:52 ` Jerome Oufella
2021-08-03 15:52 ` Jerome Oufella
2021-08-03 17:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 17:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 12:12 ` Linus Walleij
2021-08-03 12:12 ` Linus Walleij
2021-08-03 12:12 ` Linus Walleij
2021-08-03 12:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-08-03 12:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
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