Re: [PATCH 00/13] ARM: deprecated platform removal

[Randy Dunlap]

On 9/8/26 8:27 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> In the 7.3 kernel, I marked a number of platforms and features as
> deprecated, with the plan to keep these around for the LTS kernel, but
> remove them in 7.4, see [1].
> 
> Cleaning out the deprecated platform code has turned into a larger effort
> than I expected, currently standing at 300 patches, with a lot of them
> still in need of being split up into smaller ones, see [2] for a current
> snapshot.
> 
> The first series here removes just the bits in arch/arm/mach-*/, plus
> the portions that directly depend on the removed Kconfig symbols where
> these are trivial to remove.
> 
> The parts that are not included are those that remove architectural
> features and device drivers that become unused after this part. Some of
> those may also make their way into 7.4, but at this point I would target
> 7.5 for most of them, to keep the dependencies simple.
> 
> This also gives everyone a chance to voice their objections in case
> that some of the removed platform code does have active users after all,
> before all the corresponding drivers are gone.
> 
>      Arnd
> 
> Links:
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260701212353.2196041-1-arnd@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc.git/log/?h=board-remove-7.3
> 
> Arnd Bergmann (13):
>   ARM: remove sa1100 platform
>   ARM: remove footbridge
>   ARM: remove riscpc
>   ARM: remove legacy pxa board files
>   ARM: orion/dove/mv78xx0: remove all board files
>   ARM: omap2: remove omap24xx support
>   ARM: imx: remove i.MX31 SoC support
>   ARM: imx: remove nommu support
>   ARM: lpc18xx: remove entire platform
>   ARM: stm32: remove stm32f4/f7/h7 MCU support
>   ARM: versatile: remove mps2 support
>   ARM: at91: remove samv7 support
>   ARM: axxia: remove entire platform
> 
>  Documentation/arch/arm/index.rst              |    1 -
>  Documentation/arch/arm/netwinder.rst          |   85 -

I don't see netwinder.rst in any of the single patches.
Should it be in one of them?


[snip]

>  arch/arm/configs/netwinder_defconfig          |   88 -

Same for netwinder_defconfig.

If netwinder is going away, can all of
Documentation/arch/arm/nwfpe/ also go away?

Or do all of these come later (in phase 2 or 3)?

thanks.
-- 
~Randy