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=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS 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 47FEFC433E9 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2666C22473 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:24:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388320AbhAKOYJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:24:09 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([216.205.24.124]:26931 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388036AbhAKOYI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:24:08 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1610374962; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=gI8XHNu0lkd3sJIe8skJ03bmA6HUK+N9Xsm4VZa0VaE=; b=H5w0Jssfe0dlcxeRjSLmR9HOxAypiF9sT53nptMk/pCi7uNJogXvouMq7TZwm6Pr8Jlc6M hXwit46XOUq4PQn+2Xe0TmnbxXaH1LgXjenmf4jCshYmEy5600tgFYgYVFtjhL5WqhHXby BRRz1gr47qRVY55yMqGn8xiBvki3kiw= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-285-umpc9rAtNXqUC3wIZ2CICA-1; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:22:37 -0500 X-MC-Unique: umpc9rAtNXqUC3wIZ2CICA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE147107AD3A; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:22:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from trippy.localdomain (ovpn-113-111.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.113.111]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D555C224; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <41dc7795afda9f776d8cd0d3075f776cf586e97c.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead From: Mark Salter To: Arnd Bergmann , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List Cc: Krzysztof Adamski , Oleksij Rempel , Baruch Siach , Russell King - ARM Linux , Daniel Tang , Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Jamie Iles , Barry Song , Viresh Kumar , Linus Walleij , Jonas Jensen , Marc Gonzalez , Hartley Sweeten , Lubomir Rintel , Neil Armstrong , Shawn Guo , Alex Elder , Alexander Shiyan , Koen Vandeputte , Hans Ulli Kroll , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Wei Xu , Steven Rostedt , Yoshinori Sato , Michael Ellerman , Geert Uytterhoeven , Thomas Bogendoerfer Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:22:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Red Hat, Inc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.2 (3.38.2-1.fc33) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 23:55 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > * c6x: Added in 2011, this has seen very few updates since, but >     Mark still Acks patches when they come. Like most other DSP platforms, >     the model of running Linux on a DSP appears to have been obsoleted >     by using Linux on ARM with on-chip DSP cores running bare-metal code. Hi Arnd, So this has been on my mind for a while now. I no longer have working hw for c6x and TI hasn't been forthcoming with replacements. I'm totally fine with removing it from mainline. In any case, I'm not really in a position to go forward as maintainer. Mark