[v2,00/15] ARM: oxnas support removal

Message

Neil Armstrong June 30, 2023, 4:58 p.m. UTC

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.

It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time
to get over!

Now arch/arm parts are removed, now it's time to remove the remaining stuff.

Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <[e-mail]>
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Changes in v2:
- s/maintainance/maintenance/
- added acked/review tags
- dropped already applied patches
- drop RFC
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

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Neil Armstrong (15):
      clk: oxnas: remove obsolete clock driver
      dt-bindings: clk: oxnas: remove obsolete bindings
      clksource: timer-oxnas-rps: remove obsolete timer driver
      dt-bindings: timer: oxsemi,rps-timer: remove obsolete bindings
      nand: oxnas_nand: remove obsolete raw nand driver
      dt-bindings: mtd: oxnas-nand: remove obsolete bindings
      net: stmmac: dwmac-oxnas: remove obsolete dwmac glue driver
      dt-bindings: net: oxnas-dwmac: remove obsolete bindings
      pinctrl: pinctrl-oxnas: remove obsolete pinctrl driver
      dt-bindings: pinctrl: oxnas,pinctrl: remove obsolete bindings
      dt-bindings: gpio: gpio_oxnas: remove obsolete bindings
      power: reset: oxnas-restart: remove obsolete restart driver
      irqchip: irq-versatile-fpga: remove obsolete oxnas compatible
      dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: arm,versatile-fpga-irq: mark oxnas compatible as deprecated
      MAINTAINERS: remove OXNAS entry

 .../devicetree/bindings/clock/oxnas,stdclk.txt     |   28 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio_oxnas.txt        |   47 -
 .../arm,versatile-fpga-irq.txt                     |    4 +-
 .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/oxnas-nand.txt         |   41 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/net/oxnas-dwmac.txt        |   41 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/oxnas,pinctrl.txt  |   56 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/timer/oxsemi,rps-timer.txt |   17 -
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   10 -
 drivers/clk/Kconfig                                |    7 -
 drivers/clk/Makefile                               |    1 -
 drivers/clk/clk-oxnas.c                            |  251 ----
 drivers/clocksource/Kconfig                        |    7 -
 drivers/clocksource/Makefile                       |    1 -
 drivers/clocksource/timer-oxnas-rps.c              |  288 -----
 drivers/irqchip/irq-versatile-fpga.c               |    1 -
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/Kconfig                       |    7 -
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/Makefile                      |    1 -
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/oxnas_nand.c                  |  209 ----
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Kconfig        |   11 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/Makefile       |    1 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-oxnas.c  |  245 ----
 drivers/pinctrl/Kconfig                            |   11 -
 drivers/pinctrl/Makefile                           |    1 -
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-oxnas.c                    | 1292 --------------------
 drivers/power/reset/Kconfig                        |    7 -
 drivers/power/reset/Makefile                       |    1 -
 drivers/power/reset/oxnas-restart.c                |  233 ----
 27 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2816 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 5c875096d59010cee4e00da1f9c7bdb07a025dc2
change-id: 20230331-topic-oxnas-upstream-remove-a62e9d96feee

Best regards,

Comments

Andy Shevchenko June 30, 2023, 5:48 p.m. UTC | #1

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 06:58:25PM +0200, 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.
> 
> It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time
> to get over!
> 
> Now arch/arm parts are removed, now it's time to remove the remaining stuff.

For all non-DT patches
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <[e-mail]>

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