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=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED 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 BB9E8C433DB for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7438622C9F for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 08:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726645AbhAFIiF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2021 03:38:05 -0500 Received: from mail-oo1-f48.google.com ([209.85.161.48]:42963 "EHLO mail-oo1-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726074AbhAFIiE (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2021 03:38:04 -0500 Received: by mail-oo1-f48.google.com with SMTP id x203so586896ooa.9; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:37:48 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=7OzcDXMwatEtiJomNBi1fhi3zuuxEWhyROAP2OwThNY=; b=EQ71xKWn6jEzk16xLKPw5tpURAioSNiH1WBf7m9kaDOShUYzWqDQ2s2wBGAg4P9H3J Mn4cea36V3yDJZZrvHcNzPWnFPRSJt/NLvTmeFnFgsH0whYPMW6IM5yqwm8jTr01KMl9 ZZEi8CE6gy5fRn7AkvD+pvWO05miEnxQilI78QQh7PLj6v+I+0jCuNrUcUv+dhGZEZiv v0c6RD3T94Qw07f4jhO5ADNuzjlIEToYcUiiqj4wivYB6ei9N9PpupqdcyyFF4eRsE0X 6gjpUPUB00Jm1SxknefDlc66XhPGX55zcpbDjCYhJR+gAdb4eHo6ri1rjep5ilymjGKm mnxQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530lsAiSTA+Tt8ZbOkvKTVNeR7z6UzFGVNcIKOS+9jJv/Yr6Dj3n xMVsCDhZjaRef2yEGQJb1xW7zzukJ5CfJtulSPc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJz+riLQ42T+q9EFB1XsbUqjCK7bS2nCYCFI4IXj5lNnjzpQBlfNrLzEuiXe37snmeLQrap5l7udgxcoLsEDH3o= X-Received: by 2002:a4a:8353:: with SMTP id q19mr2071403oog.40.1609922242555; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:37:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210105140305.141401-1-tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20210105140305.141401-1-tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:37:11 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx To: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Matt Mackall , Herbert Xu , Dan Williams , Vinod Koul , "David S. Miller" , Miquel Raynal , Richard Weinberger , Vignesh Raghavendra , Jakub Kicinski , Alessandro Zummo , Alexandre Belloni , Mark Brown , Wim Van Sebroeck , Guenter Roeck , Liam Girdwood , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Crypto Mailing List , dmaengine , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, MTD Maling List , netdev , linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi , Linux Watchdog Mailing List , ALSA Development Mailing List , Atsushi Nemoto Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Hi Thomas, CC Nemoto-san (de-facto TX49XX maintainer) On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer 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