On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 07:27:48PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Footbridge was deprecated in 7.3 to be removed along with the other
StrongARM platforms and most remaining board files.
The main machine here is the NetWinder, which was a popular Arm based
desktop PC in the late 1990s and contributed to Arm's later success as
an embedded Linux platform, but was discontinued over 25 years ago and
is no longer all that useful.
I previously tried to convert this to devicetree in a sensible way but
gave up due to the platform being too different from modern SoC based
targets.
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralph Siemsen <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
I have one of those machines and it boot mainline but I
certainly consider it a paperweight at this point, I can't use
it for anything useful.
Likewise, I have a NetWinder machine which has occasionally booted a
mainline kernel, along with fairly current buildroot initramfs. It has
been surprisingly smooth sailing, even the bx/bl compiler troubles seem
to have been sorted out these days.
It's a bit sad to see it go, in particular since it all works. But the
reality is that nobody seems to be running this hardware anymore, and
there is no community of active users anymore.
Acked-by: Ralph Siemsen <[email protected]>
Regards,
-Ralph
