Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexander Sverdlin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] ARM: ep93xx: ts72xx: Add support for BK3 board | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:26:47 +0100 |
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Hello Linus!
On Wed Dec 13 08:34:22 2017 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de> wrote: > Out of curiosity: Liebherr is obviously doing heavy-duty industrial > control systems. Likewise Hartley is doing similar business over > at Vision Engravings. > > Is the situation such that there is a whole bunch of industrial > systems out there, in active use and needing future upgrades, > that use the EP93xx?
That's definitely the case. I'm as well aware of several thousands of industrial devices which are expected to run 24/7 for the next 5 years at least. And they are updated from time to time.
> Arnd has been nudging me to do DT conversion for EP93xx > so if there are many active industrial users of these > I should prioritize it, because these things have 20+ years > support cycles.
I'm not sure how important or necessary at all is to change anything in these legacy platforms.
> We also need to think about upholding support in GCC for > ARMv4(t) for the foreseeable future if there is a big web of > random deeply embedded systems out there that will need > updates.
But we should definitely preserve at least what we have.
-- Alexander.
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