| Message ID | 20210105140305.141401-1-tsbogend@alpha.franken.de |
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| Series | Remove support for TX49xx | expand |
Hi Thomas, CC Nemoto-san (de-facto TX49XX maintainer) On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> wrote: > I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using > TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for > it, it's time to remove it. I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they appear. Is that sufficient to keep it? TX49xx SoCs were used in Sony LocationFree base stations, running VxWorks. You can no longer buy them. I'm not aware of anyone ever porting Linux to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree_Player > spi: txx9: Remove driver I only noticed the planned removal when I saw the SPI patch was applied. Doesn't matter for me, as SPI is only present on TX4938, not on TX4927 ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
Hi Geert! On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:37:11 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > CC Nemoto-san (de-facto TX49XX maintainer) > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer > <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> wrote: >> I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using >> TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for >> it, it's time to remove it. > > I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every > bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they > appear. > > Is that sufficient to keep it? It have been about 10 years since last time I see any TX49 board :-) AFAIK Geert is the last user of TX49 SoC. I'm OK with whole TX49xx (and TX39xx) removal if Geert (or any other users) agreed. --- Atsushi Nemoto
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 21:41:24 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: >> > Is that sufficient to keep it? >> >> for me it is. But now we probaly need some reverts then... > > Indeed. Fortunately not all of it, as some removals were TX4938-only. These patches should not break RBTX4927: net: tc35815: Drop support for TX49XX boards spi: txx9: Remove driver mtd: Remove drivers used by TX49xx char: hw_random: Remove tx4939 driver rtc: tx4939: Remove driver ide: tx4938ide: Remove driver And these patches just break audio-support only. dma: tx49 removal ASoC: txx9: Remove driver I think dma and ASoC drivers are hard to maintain now, and can be dropped for basic support for RBTX4927. (TX39 boards does not have audio-support, so dma txx9 driver can be dropped too) --- Atsushi Nemoto
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 15:02:45 +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using > TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for > it, it's time to remove it. > > I've split up the removal into seperate parts for different maintainers. > So if the patch fits your needs, please take it via your tree or > give me an ack so I can apply them the mips-next tree. > > [...] Applied, thanks! [08/10] rtc: tx4939: Remove driver commit: 446667df283002fdda0530523347ffd1cf053373 Best regards,