Re: [PATCH 05/13] ARM: orion/dove/mv78xx0: remove all board files
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 15:53:21 EST
On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The 'orion' platform is the predecessor to what linux now calls the
> 'mvebu' line of Marvell SoCs, and originally covered orion5x,
> mv78xx0, kirkwood, dove and a few others that do not have any
> upstream support at the moment.
>
> Only a few board files remain here, these are the ones left
> in 2022 board file purge because they had some level of support
> in Debian or OpenWRT, mostly for commercial NAS or router boxes.
> This distro support is now gone, and nobody has converted the
> board files to devicetree, though the orion5x and dove platforms
> also come with devicetree support for some other machines.
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
Andrew