Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2019 11:34:12 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] [RFC] ARM: remove Intel iop33x and iop13xx support |
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[ add Martin (if cyrius.com address is still valid) ]
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:35 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > There are three families of IOP machines we support in Linux: iop32x > (which includes EP80219), iop33x and iop13xx (aka IOP34x aka WP8134x). > > All products we support in the kernel are based on the first of these, > iop32x, the other families only ever supported the Intel reference > boards but no actual machine anyone could ever buy. > > While one could clearly make them all three work in a single kernel > with some work, this takes the easy way out, removing the later two > platforms entirely, under the assumption that there are no remaining > users. > > Earlier versions of OpenWRT and Debian both had support for iop32x > but not the others, and they both dropped iop32x as well in their 2015 > releases. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > --- > I'm just guessing that iop32x is still needed, and the other two are > not. If anyone disagrees with that assessment, let me know so we > can come up with an alternative approach.
I'm not sure who would scream if iop32x support went away as well, but I have not followed this space in years hence copying Martin.
In any event:
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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