From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: dts: Remove MPC5xxx platforms
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:38:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211013173808.7ab92035@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211012153456.2844193-1-robh@kernel.org>
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Hi Rob,
On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:34:56 -0500 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The mpc5xxx platforms have had dts warnings for some time which no one
> seems to care to fix, so let's just remove the dts files.
>
> According to Arnd:
> "Specifically, MPC5200B has a 15 year lifetime, which ends in
> 11 months from now. The original bplan/Genesi Efika 5K2 was
> quite popular at the time it came out, and there are probably
> still some of those hanging around, but they came with Open
> Firmware rather than relying on the dts files that ship with the
> kernel.
>
> Grant Likely was the original maintainer for MPC52xx until 2011,
> Anatolij Gustschin is still listed as maintainer since then but hasn't
> been active in it for a while either. Anatolij can probably best judge
> which of these boards are still in going to be used with future kernels,
> but I suspect once you start removing bits from 52xx, the newer
> but less common 512x platform can go away as well."
>
> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> ---
> Sending this out as a feeler to see if anyone cares. If anyone does,
> please fix the warnings.
Thanks. However .. :-)
FATAL ERROR: Couldn't open "mpc5200b.dtsi": No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/home/sfr/next/next/scripts/Makefile.lib:358: arch/powerpc/boot/dts/digsy_mtc.dtb] Error 1
$ grep -wrl mpc5200b.dtsi
arch/powerpc/boot/dts/digsy_mtc.dts
missed one :-)
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-12 15:34 [RFC PATCH] powerpc: dts: Remove MPC5xxx platforms Rob Herring
2021-10-13 6:38 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2021-10-14 12:26 ` Anatolij Gustschin
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