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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal
    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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