Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] ARM: oxnas support removal

[Neil Armstrong]

On 04/04/2023 16:37, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 09:42, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> > With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable,
> > associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to
> > dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed.
> >
> > In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present
> > in an ARM config file.
> >
> > For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable
> > in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the
> > vendor (defunct for years) sources.
> >
> > The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means
> > support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026.
> >
> > If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll
> > be happy to hand off maintainance.
> >
> > The plan is to apply the first 4 patches first, then the drivers
> > followed by bindings. Finally the MAINTAINANCE entry can be removed.
>
> I merged all four into the soc tree now, thanks!

Thanks for handling this !

Neil

>       Arnd