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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>


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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>


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             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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