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=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,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 40287CA9EAB for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A41222BD for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:35:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726164AbfJSTez (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:34:55 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:40477 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726118AbfJSTez (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:34:55 -0400 Received: from mail-qt1-f175.google.com ([209.85.160.175]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue106 [212.227.15.145]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1M7rxE-1iPmNb1R2o-0054s6 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:34:53 +0200 Received: by mail-qt1-f175.google.com with SMTP id u40so14289720qth.11 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:34:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXp61ezAskyvlbWXoSEccXbtKpe9OTZNpRqOZQnloRp0KH2aAtM jTCx8oIBaOQ6OyEV2i9eYjXwk5WNd9LrwoN0QEE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqy22GrAJBe0FkPxmOqPm4Xlz+XL09o/POQr34X5BMu5W279MixtQUydyM5HiIo/UQu7OEriNwiYVGEphslC9R0= X-Received: by 2002:ac8:38e3:: with SMTP id g32mr16775838qtc.304.1571513692155; Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:34:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20191018154052.1276506-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20191018154201.1276638-44-arnd@arndb.de> <4d6920e9fab519ddf69aae9da13a1cd02d13bddd.camel@v3.sk> In-Reply-To: <4d6920e9fab519ddf69aae9da13a1cd02d13bddd.camel@v3.sk> From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:34:36 +0200 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 44/46] ARM: mmp: remove tavorevb board support To: Lubomir Rintel Cc: Daniel Mack , Haojian Zhuang , Robert Jarzmik , Linux ARM , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Walleij Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:RFAmhEsdA6kxFpSgM8lHmA0wEEu5pmby0DqOCGFNm8WHjYai81X mboWZnK33Gy9CvXEZfq59LPyr5/8DNMpr+DdT/jLOCYxTuW3iDLGAnslJVAcC4WdN5aL9om Zv/g9rOIkdCRLckdZ4knl3Z9jY195TnU+YNLfoYgm/7vbPnGrUujrBaS6d/VZVpkOP4OQH6 /4jJmEvDrWKW7eToU1f6w== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:QR2VVtTc4E0=:OUJCyA2sxeW9lmDH7B0ySm vaggIeLEmCvcPpmFq3CvNbJ6zy51dDgs/dzfHcilMsLOaPhgGtGiOc3bBZgQxwvJ76bq4CRVV sV9pYXD0DqsGVtt0dw0VpWjD+YjTDk2vG6X5GxwNXi+KD5x/e6O7t+RKSmytg14otQBGVfmu4 TGMGfG++/yq+oQuuewRsT8GUfDdRvieaLF+lTD8AuyAyR4pjrd5Vqr4MS5N9y3JSTxlIRT0wl u8O2DBRUPqXXZjMA8rVnHhKl1tosPKZw7rEeT7HUgKzz2M9speeeC6O7QFSlVlcd7po/c6bHY mnCC3Rf7LMxn5AlyaHq+pXdzx4dFezSnO8/+fZcXSUarczwZMHWCTNR5L4Rpajag0VmUz5vFH ma8ZwIjfoIH0nuowMv451LMVIyMA/kPj20smAALUg583QHEI9KjJq1Yl80VDGtvewVOjbQbHb iq/jpPXh0M7n3JCuIZhK029e0//e8sNUijndQ7R9v1zzSoCICb8EYON8YQpRkUyiO+Nahb87Z cEyICM9X8h0la7tAxOl3Ne7b0W6W049wHnRE1BRynkGGsogWiWQ7H+BiYrb9jjBC19KTKU69n wpH48h1Osshg2TU7L2ZvxVrlOxboKkayc26LNYGWyQr/tFwWrksseKHHYzjtwXYzD/zeNkcFR 0OMMbZva9SeszrebpGgSgdRW194kVT2E0E1EWdryr6Mb5TE+E0V4GMGaQYsN4w+0UNSTrraiB iFLE6Tl62gSuB55WNZdRXpgIbnn/vec0EIaBgpw+fdFpWTgIPlKrngS52rJJOAPRcw+F1Shs5 dl9ud8mdAyuWRQgZCQZj2YkJFahxuIBNQBbr0Fo//bwmYXvCnrbcOIvEVG9SMa2VrHsxy1CqV f9jRwjuqA0Oa3MKF3d9Q== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 4:20 PM Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 17:41 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > There is a third board named TavorEVB in the Kconfig description, > > but this refers to the "TTC_DKB" machine. The two are clearly > > related, so I change the Kconfig description to just list both > > names. > > > > Cc: Lubomir Rintel > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann > > Reviewed-by: Lubomir Rintel > > In fact, I'd love to see more non-DT boards go from mach-mmp. There are > good indications nobody is looking after MMP2-based "Jasper", "Flint" > and "Brownstone" and they probably weren't seen outside Marvell either. > The latter has a DTS file. > > Would anybody miss them? Probably not, but I had a hard time identifying any boards in mmp and some other platforms that are actually worth keeping. Back in the days, a common way the platforms were maintained was to only have the official development board in mainline Linux, while many products were left with out of tree board files. This means it's impossible to see which SoCs actually got used in the field and which ones did not. It also means the other machines stopped getting forward-ported and nobody could test the mainline changes. I wouldn't mind just removing all of the machines that were clearly reference hardware rather than actual products unless we know of someone still using them. In case of MMP, that doesn't leave a lot though, the gplugD is the only one that clearly meant as an end-user product. I'd also leave all the DT based platforms as a rule, mainly because the DT has made it possible to support additional boards with a custom dt blob and no kernel changes. If you have any more insight into what particular boards actually were used for, and which ones can get removed, that would be very welcome. Arnd