Re: [PATCH 1/2] fbdev: xilinxfb: remove the driver

[Pandey, Radhey Shyam]

On 11/9/2026 7:17 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 10:39:01PM +0530, Radhey Shyam Pandey wrote:
> > Remove xilinx framebuffer soft IP driver. This IP core relies on Xilinx
> > Platform Studio (XPS) and the ISE Design suite, both of which were
> > discontinued by Xilinx years ago. Furthermore, modern AMD toolchains
> > (Vivado Design Suite and Vitis) provide no support for the legacy PLB
> > (Processor Local Bus) architecture used by these cores. As a result,
> > no new hardware designs can be built using this IP.
> >
> > Nothing in the tree document the driver compatible strings. Given the
> > complete obsolescence of the supporting hardware development tools
> > and the lack of upstream users, remove the dead driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> You can include here defconfig update.

Thanks for the review. Based on Michal’s suggestion during the internal 
review, I left this out of the current series and plan to send defconfig 
update as a follow-up once this series is applied as it will go through 
his tree.

Thanks,
Radhey