[PATCH 3/5] ARM: remove zte zx platform

[Shawn Guo]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 01:48:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> The ZTE ZX set-top-box SoC platform was added in 2015 by Jun Nie, with
> Baoyou Xie and Shawn Guo subsequently becoming maintainers after the
> addition of the 64-bit variant.
> 
> However, the only machines that were ever supported upstream are the
> reference designs, not actual set-top-box devices that would benefit
> from this support. All ZTE set-top-boxes from the past few years seem
> to be based on third-party SoCs. While there is very little information
> about zx296702 and zx296718 on the web, I found some references to other
> chips from the same family, such as zx296716 and zx296719, which were
> never submitted for upstream support. Finally, there is no support for
> the GPU on either of them, with the lima and panfrost device drivers
> having been added after work on the zx platform had stopped.
> 
> Shawn confirmed that he has not seen any interest in this platform for
> the past four years, and that it can be removed.
> 
> Thanks to Jun and Shawn for maintaining this platform over the past
> five years.
> 
> Cc: Jun Nie <jun.nie at linaro.org>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo at kernel.org>