[PATCH] ARM: davinci: Delete DM644x board files

Kevin Hilman khilman at baylibre.com
Tue Aug 16 10:51:22 PDT 2022


Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 2:03 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> The interest of maintaining the DaVinci DM644x board files seems
>> very low. Patches to convert the EVM board to use GPIO descriptors
>> has not been reviewed, tested or merged for several merge
>> windows in a row, see link below.
>>
>> When I look in the logs for the board files I see nothing but
>> generic kernel maintenance and no testing on real hardware for
>> years.
>>
>> I conclude the DM644x board files are unused and can be deleted.
>>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter at konsulko.com>
>> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
>> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220507124536.171930-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org/
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> I realized Kevin Hilman wrote the original support code and might have
> this board in his test farm in the shed so paging Kevin too.

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>

Until a year or so ago, I was still boot testing some davinci platforms
in "legacy" mode via board files, but I stopped.  Since then my DM644x
died completely, so I don't even have this platform anymore for testing.

Kevin

P.S. Sorry for the lag, just catching up after taking some summer time off.




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