| Subject | Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Date | Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:34:52 -0800 |
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On 1/8/2021 2:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > After v5.10 was officially declared an LTS kernel, I had a look around > the Arm platforms that look like they have not seen any patches from > their maintainers or users that are actually running the hardware for > at least five years (2015 or earlier). I made some statistics and lists > for my lwn.net article last year [1], so I'd thought I'd share a summary > here for discussion about what we should remove. As I found three > years ago when I removed several CPU architectures, it makes sense > to do this in bulk, to simplify a scripted search for device drivers, header > files and Kconfig options that become unused in the process. > > This is probably a mix of platforms that are completely unused and > those that just work, but I have no good way of knowing which one > it is. Without hearing back about these, I'd propose removing all of > these: > > * asm9260 -- added in 2014, no notable changes after 2015 > * axxia -- added in 2014, no notable changes after 2015 > * bcm/kona -- added in 2013, no notable changes after 2014
I have a development board that I occasionally turn on for testing upstream kernels, it has not broken in a while which is why it did not get much updates. I don't feel strongly with respect to keep it or dropping it though. -- Florian
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