On Mon, 2021-01-11 at 03:28 -0500, 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. > > 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.
Acked-by: Scott Wood <o...@buserror.net> -Scott
