Hello Linus! On Wed Dec 13 08:34:22 2017 Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Lukasz Majewski <lu...@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.
