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 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE419C433EF for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CEA6112D for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:33:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231531AbhKFTf4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2021 15:35:56 -0400 Received: from gloria.sntech.de ([185.11.138.130]:36406 "EHLO gloria.sntech.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234937AbhKFTfz (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2021 15:35:55 -0400 Received: from ip5f5a6e92.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de ([95.90.110.146] helo=diego.localnet) by gloria.sntech.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mjRR5-0000Nv-9C; Sat, 06 Nov 2021 20:33:07 +0100 From: Heiko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=FCbner?= To: Cedric Roux , Russell King , Arnd Bergmann , Linus Walleij , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Olof Johansson , Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Marek Szyprowski , Sylwester Nawrocki , Tomasz Figa , Chanwoo Choi , Inki Dae , Sam Van Den Berge , Lihua Yao Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: s3c: mark as deprecated and schedule removal after 2022 Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2021 20:33:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4062510.I3n91tvSNF@diego> In-Reply-To: <08c8f447-dcae-83b4-e5b3-a13704a5b158@canonical.com> References: <20211102110519.142434-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com> <08c8f447-dcae-83b4-e5b3-a13704a5b158@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org Am Samstag, 6. November 2021, 19:20:05 CET schrieb Krzysztof Kozlowski: > On 05/11/2021 18:49, Cedric Roux wrote: > > On 11/2/21 12:05 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > >> If there are any users, they might respond and postpone the removal. > > > > Hi Krzysztof, > > > > I use a mini2440 (which is s3c2440) as an http server at home. > > I don't have much time but I can do some testing from time to > > time, but my setup is very custom so I don't know how helpful > > that would be for the community (if there is one). > > We just need to know whether the kernel behaves properly on the > hardware. The setup itself should not matter, but what matters more is > that you do not run a new kernel at all. There is a lot of untested code > there. > > > > > I would be sad to see official support disappear, but I know > > how hard it is to maintain stuff, and I think I can keep going > > with the current kernel I use (which is not even 5.xx I think), > > so that would not be a big damage for me. And if I have special > > needs in the future (very doubtful) I guess I could hack something > > on my own. > > > > Anyway, there is at least one s3c2440 server on Earth powered > > by the linux kernel. Now you know! :) > > Thanks for coming back! We will see how much of feedback we gather. I do believe all (or at least most) of s3c24xx could run with a devicetree base with core peripherals enabled. So one possible alternative way could be to just deprecate (and then drop) all the board-files + their platform-data parts in mach-s3c. Heiko