Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Apr 2023 16:43:07 +0200 | From | Neil Armstrong <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal |
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On 04/04/2023 16:37, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 09:42, Neil Armstrong wrote: >> 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 merged all four into the soc tree now, thanks!
Thanks for handling this !
Neil
> > Arnd
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