Scheduling (unused) board file removal for linux-6.x

[Alexander Sverdlin]

Hello Nikita, Lukasz, Hartley,

On Thu, 2022-06-30 at 09:42 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > ep93xx
> > > 
> > > These are still used, and the platform includes the only remaining two
> > > board files that were added after linux-3.0. DT support is probably
> > > doable now that common-clk works. Need information about which boards
> > > are important.
> > 
> > I'm still maintaining/able to test CONFIG_MACH_EDB93XX (edb93xx.c).
> 
> Noted, thanks! We'll leave them in for 2023 then.
> 
> Any thoughts on long-term uses for the platform? Do you know of users
> of any products other than the reference boards that would justify doing
> a DT conversion, or do we just delete the platform another time?

what are your projections for EP93xx support?

I'm personally a bit pessimistic about DT conversion because existing partition
tables were already challenged by the kernel growth. It has at least grown
+60% with the same config since 2006. This makes me think that 2023 EOL for this
SoC might be feasible.

-- 
Alexander Sverdlin.