Re: RISCV: canaan: Deprecated (oficially) the K210

From: Geert Uytterhoeven

Date: Sun Oct 11 2026 - 08:06:09 EST


On Fri, 9 Oct 2026 at 11:32, Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2026/10/09 11:29, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Two years ago, at LPC, the only known user of the k210, Damien, gave his

FTR, I still test each renesas-drivers release on SiPEED MAiX BiT...

> > okay to delete the platform from the kernel but this never actually took
> > place. Deprecate the platform now, marking it as broken so that users
> > will have to explicitly re-enable it on updating their kernels.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sad... But yeah, this platform never was really super useful in itself, beside
> the code cleanups it generated.
>
> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sad to see it go, but it's indeed been a while since the kernel was small
enough to actually get to a shell prompt...

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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