Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: msm: Remove MSM7x00 support | | From | Daniel Walker <> | | Date | Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:33:12 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:27 -0800, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:39:05AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > If someone is willing to step up and make it work, then we can keep it > > > around. My only G1 is fried, so I have no way to do anything other > > > than keep it compiling. > > > > Unfortunately, You can't remove it regardless of whether or not you have > > one to test on.. Your job is to do the best you can to keep it working > > and maintained. If you don't have one then you can't boot test but you > > still have to your best to keep it as close to working as possible. > > I was trying to get an idea if anyone uses the target. If people > want the target around, we can just ignore my patches to remove it.
Please don't ever do this again.
> Remember, though, it is a tradeoff. The msm7201 is fairly different > than the other MSM targets, and adds some effort to the consolidation > work across all of ARM. I think it would be better, overall, to drop > support for it, if there are no users.
To me that would be a failure in design of the consolidation.. If we removed all the targets that are "different" we might not have many targets.
> I'm pretty sure that the chips themselves are past end-of-life, so > there isn't going to be any new hardware based on the msm7201.
There's still plenty of them floating around.
> I'm curious what kinds of uses people have for their G1s. > > Speaking of old targets, it doesn't look like the mahimahi (Nexus One) > ever made it to the point of building. I have a dev board board on > the msm8650, and the chip support does work. It'd be nice to get > patches to get the Nexus One target to work as well. (the > board-mahimahi.c includes a board-mahimahi.h that isn't present).
I'd love to have it working too.
Daniel
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