From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, soc@kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-oxnas@groups.io, Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>, Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:42:17 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> (raw) With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable, associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed. In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present in an ARM config file. For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the vendor (defunct for years) sources. The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026. If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll be happy to hand off maintainance. The plan is to apply the first 4 patches first, then the drivers followed by bindings. Finally the MAINTAINANCE entry can be removed. I'm not sure about the process of bindings removal, but perhaps the bindings should be marked as deprecated first then removed later on ? It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time to get over! [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230327121317.4081816-1-arnd@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> --- Changes in v2: - Only keep first 4 patches for v6.4, the rest will be done later split per subsystem - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v1-0-5bd58fd1dd1f@linaro.org --- Neil Armstrong (4): ARM: dts: oxnas: remove obsolete device tree files ARM: oxnas: remove OXNAS support ARM: configs: remove oxnas_v6_defconfig dt-bindings: arm: oxnas: remove obsolete bindings Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/oxnas.txt | 14 - arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 - arch/arm/Makefile | 1 - arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile | 3 - arch/arm/boot/dts/ox810se-wd-mbwe.dts | 115 ------- arch/arm/boot/dts/ox810se.dtsi | 357 --------------------- .../dts/ox820-cloudengines-pogoplug-series-3.dts | 93 ------ arch/arm/boot/dts/ox820.dtsi | 299 ----------------- arch/arm/configs/oxnas_v6_defconfig | 92 ------ arch/arm/mach-oxnas/Kconfig | 38 --- arch/arm/mach-oxnas/Makefile | 2 - arch/arm/mach-oxnas/headsmp.S | 23 -- arch/arm/mach-oxnas/platsmp.c | 96 ------ 13 files changed, 1135 deletions(-) --- base-commit: fe15c26ee26efa11741a7b632e9f23b01aca4cc6 change-id: 20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-a62e9d96feee Best regards, -- Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>
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From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, soc@kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>, Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-oxnas@groups.io, Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>, Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org> Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 09:42:17 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v2-0-e51078376f08@linaro.org> (raw) With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable, associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed. In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present in an ARM config file. For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the vendor (defunct for years) sources. The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026. If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll be happy to hand off maintainance. The plan is to apply the first 4 patches first, then the drivers followed by bindings. Finally the MAINTAINANCE entry can be removed. I'm not sure about the process of bindings removal, but perhaps the bindings should be marked as deprecated first then removed later on ? It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time to get over! [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230327121317.4081816-1-arnd@kernel.org/ Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> --- Changes in v2: - Only keep first 4 patches for v6.4, the rest will be done later split per subsystem - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-v1-0-5bd58fd1dd1f@linaro.org --- Neil Armstrong (4): ARM: dts: oxnas: remove obsolete device tree files ARM: oxnas: remove OXNAS support ARM: configs: remove oxnas_v6_defconfig dt-bindings: arm: oxnas: remove obsolete bindings Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/oxnas.txt | 14 - arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 - arch/arm/Makefile | 1 - arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile | 3 - arch/arm/boot/dts/ox810se-wd-mbwe.dts | 115 ------- arch/arm/boot/dts/ox810se.dtsi | 357 --------------------- .../dts/ox820-cloudengines-pogoplug-series-3.dts | 93 ------ arch/arm/boot/dts/ox820.dtsi | 299 ----------------- arch/arm/configs/oxnas_v6_defconfig | 92 ------ arch/arm/mach-oxnas/Kconfig | 38 --- arch/arm/mach-oxnas/Makefile | 2 - arch/arm/mach-oxnas/headsmp.S | 23 -- arch/arm/mach-oxnas/platsmp.c | 96 ------ 13 files changed, 1135 deletions(-) --- base-commit: fe15c26ee26efa11741a7b632e9f23b01aca4cc6 change-id: 20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-a62e9d96feee Best regards, -- Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org> _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
next reply other threads:[~2023-04-03 7:42 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2023-04-03 7:42 Neil Armstrong [this message] 2023-04-03 7:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/4] ARM: dts: oxnas: remove obsolete device tree files Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 2/4] ARM: oxnas: remove OXNAS support Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 3/4] ARM: configs: remove oxnas_v6_defconfig Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` [PATCH RFC v2 4/4] dt-bindings: arm: oxnas: remove obsolete bindings Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 7:42 ` Neil Armstrong 2023-04-03 18:36 ` [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal Rob Herring 2023-04-03 18:36 ` Rob Herring 2023-04-04 14:37 ` Arnd Bergmann 2023-04-04 14:37 ` Arnd Bergmann 2023-04-04 14:43 ` Neil Armstrong 2023-04-04 14:43 ` Neil Armstrong 2023-04-04 14:41 ` patchwork-bot+linux-soc
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