Re: [PATCH/RFC 7/8] ARM: shmobile: Remove the ARCH_SHMOBILE Kconfig symbol

From: Simon Horman
Date: Mon Apr 23 2018 - 05:20:30 EST


On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:28:33PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> All drivers for Renesas ARM SoCs have gained proper ARCH_RENESAS
> platform dependencies. Hence finish the conversion from ARCH_SHMOBILE
> to ARCH_RENESAS for Renesas 32-bit ARM SoCs, as started by commit
> 9b5ba0df4ea4f940 ("ARM: shmobile: Introduce ARCH_RENESAS").
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This depends on the previous patches in this series, hence the RFC.
>
> JFTR, after this, the following symbols for drivers supporting only
> Renesas SuperH "SH-Mobile" SoCs can no longer be selected:
> - CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SH_KEYSC,
> - CONFIG_VIDEO_SH_VOU,
> - CONFIG_VIDEO_SH_MOBILE_CEU,
> - CONFIG_DRM_SHMOBILE[*],
> - CONFIG_FB_SH_MOBILE_MERAM.
> (changes for a shmobile_defconfig .config)
>
> [*] CONFIG_DRM_SHMOBILE has a dependency on ARM, but it was never wired
> up. From the use of sh_mobile_meram, I guess it was meant for
> SH-Mobile AP4 on Mackerel or AP4EVB, which are long gone.
> So the only remaining upstream platforms that could make use of it
> are legacy SuperH SH-Mobile SoCs?

That sounds about right. If there is interest I can sift through my mail
archive and see if it yields any answers.