From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>, Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>, "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>, dmaengine <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>, ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:37:11 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAMuHMdX=trGqj8RzV7r1iTneqDjWOc4e1T-X+R_B34rxxhJpbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20210105140305.141401-1-tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Hi Thomas, CC Nemoto-san (de-facto TX49XX maintainer) On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> wrote: > I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using > TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for > it, it's time to remove it. I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they appear. Is that sufficient to keep it? TX49xx SoCs were used in Sony LocationFree base stations, running VxWorks. You can no longer buy them. I'm not aware of anyone ever porting Linux to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player > spi: txx9: Remove driver I only noticed the planned removal when I saw the SPI patch was applied. Doesn't matter for me, as SPI is only present on TX4938, not on TX4927 ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>, ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>, Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>, linux-spi <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>, Linux Watchdog Mailing List <linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>, dmaengine <dmaengine@vger.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:37:11 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAMuHMdX=trGqj8RzV7r1iTneqDjWOc4e1T-X+R_B34rxxhJpbg@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20210105140305.141401-1-tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Hi Thomas, CC Nemoto-san (de-facto TX49XX maintainer) On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> wrote: > I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using > TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for > it, it's time to remove it. I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they appear. Is that sufficient to keep it? TX49xx SoCs were used in Sony LocationFree base stations, running VxWorks. You can no longer buy them. I'm not aware of anyone ever porting Linux to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player > spi: txx9: Remove driver I only noticed the planned removal when I saw the SPI patch was applied. Doesn't matter for me, as SPI is only present on TX4938, not on TX4927 ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-06 8:38 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-01-05 14:02 [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 01/10] MIPS: TX49xx: Drop support Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:59 ` Guenter Roeck 2021-01-05 14:59 ` Guenter Roeck 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 02/10] net: tc35815: Drop support for TX49XX boards Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 03/10] net: 8390: " Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 04/10] spi: txx9: Remove driver Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 05/10] dma: tx49 removal Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-06 6:18 ` Vinod Koul 2021-01-06 6:18 ` Vinod Koul 2021-01-06 6:18 ` Vinod Koul 2021-01-06 19:10 ` Joe Perches 2021-01-06 19:10 ` Joe Perches 2021-01-06 19:10 ` Joe Perches 2021-01-07 16:40 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-07 16:40 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-07 16:40 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-08 8:27 ` Vinod Koul 2021-01-08 8:27 ` Vinod Koul 2021-01-08 8:27 ` Vinod Koul 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 06/10] mtd: Remove drivers used by TX49xx Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:06 ` Miquel Raynal 2021-01-05 14:06 ` Miquel Raynal 2021-01-05 14:06 ` Miquel Raynal 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 07/10] char: hw_random: Remove tx4939 driver Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 08/10] rtc: tx4939: Remove driver Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 09/10] ide: tx4938ide: " Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` [PATCH 10/10] ASoC: txx9: " Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 14:02 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-05 16:08 ` (subset) [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx Mark Brown 2021-01-05 16:08 ` Mark Brown 2021-01-06 8:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message] 2021-01-06 8:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2021-01-06 16:03 ` Atsushi Nemoto 2021-01-06 16:03 ` Atsushi Nemoto 2021-01-06 18:48 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-06 18:48 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer 2021-01-06 20:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2021-01-06 20:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2021-01-07 1:17 ` Atsushi Nemoto 2021-01-07 1:17 ` Atsushi Nemoto 2021-01-07 8:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2021-01-07 8:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2021-01-07 8:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2021-01-06 14:58 ` (subset) " Mark Brown 2021-01-06 14:58 ` Mark Brown 2021-01-12 23:33 ` Alexandre Belloni 2021-01-12 23:33 ` Alexandre Belloni
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