[[PATCH 0/3] Retire remaining WindRiver embedded SBC BSPs] On 11/01/2021 (Mon 03:28) Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> In v2.6.27 (2008, 917f0af9e5a9) the sbc8260 support was implicitly > retired by not being carried forward through the ppc --> powerpc > device tree transition. > > Then, in v3.6 (2012, b048b4e17cbb) we retired the support for the > sbc8560 boards. > > Next, in v4.18 (2017, 3bc6cf5a86e5) we retired the support for the > 2006 vintage sbc834x boards. > > The sbc8548 and sbc8641d boards were maybe 1-2 years newer than the > sbc834x boards, but it is also 3+ years later, so it makes sense to > now retire them as well - which is what is done here. Any chance we can ensure this gets queued for v5.15 once the merge window closes? I don't like to nag, but it has been six months, and even the U-boot guys have since removed these old platforms. https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-July/454081.html https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2021-July/454089.html Thanks, Paul. -- > > These two remaining WR boards were based on the Freescale MPC8548-CDS > and the MPC8641D-HPCN reference board implementations. Having had the > chance to use these and many other Fsl ref boards, I know this: The > Freescale reference boards were typically produced in limited quantity > and primarily available to BSP developers and hardware designers, and > not likely to have found a 2nd life with hobbyists and/or collectors. > > It was good to have that BSP code subjected to mainline review and > hence also widely available back in the day. But given the above, we > should probably also be giving serious consideration to retiring > additional similar age/type reference board platforms as well. > > I've always felt it is important for us to be proactive in retiring > old code, since it has a genuine non-zero carrying cost, as described > in the 930d52c012b8 merge log. But for the here and now, we just > clean up the remaining BSP code that I had added for SBC platforms. > > Paul. > -- > > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> > Cc: Scott Wood <o...@buserror.net> > > The following changes since commit 7c53f6b671f4aba70ff15e1b05148b10d58c2837: > > Linux 5.11-rc3 (2021-01-10 14:34:50 -0800) > > are available in the Git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux.git wr_sbc-delete > > for you to fetch changes up to 1dfb28199572e3f6517cada41f6a150551749da1: > > MAINTAINERS: update for Paul Gortmaker (2021-01-11 00:06:01 -0500) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Paul Gortmaker (3): > powerpc: retire sbc8548 board support > powerpc: retire sbc8641d board support > MAINTAINERS: update for Paul Gortmaker > > MAINTAINERS | 1 - > arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 1 - > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/sbc8641d.dts | 176 ----------------- > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548-altflash.dts | 111 ----------- > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548-post.dtsi | 289 > ---------------------------- > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548-pre.dtsi | 48 ----- > arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548.dts | 106 ---------- > arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper | 2 +- > arch/powerpc/configs/85xx/sbc8548_defconfig | 50 ----- > arch/powerpc/configs/mpc85xx_base.config | 1 - > arch/powerpc/configs/mpc86xx_base.config | 1 - > arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig | 1 - > arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Kconfig | 6 - > arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/Makefile | 1 - > arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/sbc8548.c | 134 ------------- > arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/Kconfig | 8 +- > arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/Makefile | 1 - > arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/sbc8641d.c | 87 --------- > 18 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1022 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/sbc8641d.dts > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548-altflash.dts > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548-post.dtsi > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548-pre.dtsi > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/boot/dts/sbc8548.dts > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/configs/85xx/sbc8548_defconfig > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/sbc8548.c > delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/sbc8641d.c
