On 10 October 2026 11:51:49 BST, "Łukasz Majewski" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Tom, Bradley, > >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 07:36:39PM +0000, Bradley Morgan wrote: >> >> > MPC8548 silicon is no longer manufactured, and the MPC8548CDS board >> > is obsolete. Remove the board and its SoC support. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <[email protected]> >> >> So, globally. As has been discussed on IRC already, please take a more >> neutral removal message in v2. The problem isn't that the boards >> aren't manufactured, it's that (likely) they aren't being actively >> tested and maintained in the community. We're fine with "obsolete" >> hardware if someone is maintaining it. Also, please rework the CC >> list (outside the cover letter) to include the listed board >> maintainers, and then only people that have touched the relevant code >> recently, perhaps with a manual audit or exclude some global or >> common files, when looking for who else to CC. Thanks. >> > >Maybe I would add my 2 cents... > >There are a lot of MPC85xx systems out there - and probably (my guess) >is that at some point some customers would be "forced" to refurbish >them. > >Some companies need very long time to realize that their crucial legacy >products may be removed from u-boot. I would opt for longer and more >"broadcast" obsolence process. > > >I had similar situation in the past when some Samsung SoCs were removed >from u-boot - nobody was willing to pay for re-adding them upstrem - >this means that they were kept out of tree.
This opinion was basically said in IRC, that devices that weren't on Linux AND eol should go. The V2 series is submitted, with a pick structure, so every "EOL" board gets deleted. You wouldn't have to merge them all. > > > > --- Thanks! "I'm not a very positive person" - Linus torvalds
