On Tuesday 25 September 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 25 September 2012, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > > Regarding mv78xx0, I agree that I'm not sure what to do. The number of > > > supported platforms is small. Should we simply mark mv78xx0 deprecated > > > now, wait a few release cycles to see if anyone shows up, and see what > > > to do at this point? > > We should let Sebastien Requiem comment. He is the only person outside of > Marvell who has contributed a board file for mv78xx0. If he's interested in > keeping it alive, he's hopefully also able to find the time to test the > devicetree version of that platform in mach-mvebu. Similarly, if anyone > has the MASA reference design, that one could be moved over to mach-mvebu > first. > > There is a much smaller user base for mv78xx0 than for orion5x, so as long > as we can keep the support working with DT, we can throw out the legacy > code much faster than for orion. If it doesn't get put into mach-mvebu > and you can't find anyone who has hardware to test on, you could also > stop maintaining it and leave it to bitrot, but I wouldn't just remove it > on a fast track then.
The address I used for Sebastien appears to be dead. Maybe this one still works. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/