[PATCH 14/15] ARM: shmobile: Remove AP4EVB board support

[Magnus Damm]

Hi Guennadi,

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Guennadi Liakhovetski
<g.liakhovetski at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Simon
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Simon Horman wrote:
>
>> From: Magnus Damm <damm at opensource.se>
>>
>> Remove board support for the sh7372 based AP4EVB board
>>
>> The sh7372 SoC support code is still kept around since it
>> is in use by the Mackerel board which is basically a more
>> recent board where the design is based on AP4EVB.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm at opensource.se>
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas at verge.net.au>
>
> It would be a pity if this patch gets pulled now. We're still discussing
> with Magnus, I believe. My opinion is, that this board is a good testing
> platform for V4L2. It is the only board in the mainline, using the CSI2
> interface, present on multiple Renesas SoCs, including r8a73a4 (APE6), and
> (probably, not 100% sure) sh73a0 (AG5), and the IMX074 camera sensor, not
> present on any other platform. If this board is removed, supporting both
> CSI2 and IMX074 will become difficult. Besides, AP4EVB is used as an
> example in my V4L2 clock / async probing patch series:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg63174.html
>
> If still possible, would be good to delay removing this board until we
> complete our discussion.

If fine with keeping the board if someone can show me progress in the
area of INTC DT support. Recently I have not seen anything.

So if no one is developing DT support for this board then I can't
really see how we will be able to support it in the future with ARM
SoC requirements for DT and MULTIPLATFORM...

Cheers,

/ magnus