[PATCH 06/13] ARM: ep93xx: mark most board files as unused

[Hartley Sweeten]

Hello,

I still have some Vision EP9302 boards that I use.

Hartley

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2022 7:30 AM
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org>; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>; Nikita Shubin <nikita.shubin at maquefel.me>; Hartley Sweeten <HartleyS at visionengravers.com>; Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] ARM: ep93xx: mark most board files as unused


Hi Arnd!

On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 16:17 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Most of the remaining ARM board files in the kernel have no known 
> users, and we plan to remove those in early 2023.
>
> For ep93xx, Alexander Sverdlin still has access to the edb93xx family 
> of reference boards, while Nikita Shubin has a ts7250 and is working 
> on a device tree conversion for those.
>
> This is a total of nine machine definitions that we will keep around, 
> but these are all similar machines and are defined in only two board 
> files. The other six board files now have a dependency on 
> CONFIG_UNUSED_BOARD_FILES to indicate that they are likely going away.
>
> Cc: Nikita Shubin <nikita.shubin at maquefel.me>
> Cc: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin at gmail.com>
> Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
> Cc: Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Acked-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin at gmail.com>

> ---
>  arch/arm/configs/ep93xx_defconfig | 9 ---------
>  arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/Kconfig      | 9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/ep93xx_defconfig 
> b/arch/arm/configs/ep93xx_defconfig
> index dd390f3b19d2..afa4f789da1f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/configs/ep93xx_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/configs/ep93xx_defconfig
> @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ CONFIG_EXPERT=y
>  CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V4T=y
>  # CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V7 is not set
>  CONFIG_ARCH_EP93XX=y
> -CONFIG_MACH_ADSSPHERE=y
>  CONFIG_MACH_EDB9301=y
>  CONFIG_MACH_EDB9302=y
>  CONFIG_MACH_EDB9302A=y
> @@ -17,15 +16,7 @@ CONFIG_MACH_EDB9307A=y  CONFIG_MACH_EDB9312=y  
> CONFIG_MACH_EDB9315=y  CONFIG_MACH_EDB9315A=y -CONFIG_MACH_GESBC9312=y 
> -CONFIG_MACH_MICRO9H=y -CONFIG_MACH_MICRO9M=y -CONFIG_MACH_MICRO9L=y 
> -CONFIG_MACH_MICRO9S=y -CONFIG_MACH_SIM_ONE=y 
> -CONFIG_MACH_SNAPPER_CL15=y  CONFIG_MACH_TS72XX=y 
> -CONFIG_MACH_VISION_EP9307=y  CONFIG_AEABI=y
>  CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyAM0,115200 root=/dev/nfs ip=bootp"
>  CONFIG_MODULES=y
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/Kconfig 
> b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/Kconfig index ecac8b487dae..f96d14073b91 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/Kconfig
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ comment "EP93xx Platforms"
>
>  config MACH_ADSSPHERE
>         bool "Support ADS Sphere"
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the ADS
>           Sphere board.
> @@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ config MACH_EDB9315A
>
>  config MACH_GESBC9312
>         bool "Support Glomation GESBC-9312-sx"
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Glomation
>           GESBC-9312-sx board.
> @@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ config MACH_MICRO9  config MACH_MICRO9H
>         bool "Support Contec Micro9-High"
>         select MACH_MICRO9
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>           Contec Micro9-High board.
> @@ -116,6 +119,7 @@ config MACH_MICRO9H  config MACH_MICRO9M
>         bool "Support Contec Micro9-Mid"
>         select MACH_MICRO9
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>           Contec Micro9-Mid board.
> @@ -123,6 +127,7 @@ config MACH_MICRO9M  config MACH_MICRO9L
>         bool "Support Contec Micro9-Lite"
>         select MACH_MICRO9
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>           Contec Micro9-Lite board.
> @@ -130,18 +135,21 @@ config MACH_MICRO9L  config MACH_MICRO9S
>         bool "Support Contec Micro9-Slim"
>         select MACH_MICRO9
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>           Contec Micro9-Slim board.
>
>  config MACH_SIM_ONE
>          bool "Support Simplemachines Sim.One board"
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>          help
>            Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>            Simplemachines Sim.One board.
>
>  config MACH_SNAPPER_CL15
>         bool "Support Bluewater Systems Snapper CL15 Module"
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the Bluewater
>           Systems Snapper CL15 Module.
> @@ -154,6 +162,7 @@ config MACH_TS72XX
>
>  config MACH_VISION_EP9307
>         bool "Support Vision Engraving Systems EP9307 SoM"
> +       depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
>         help
>           Say 'Y' here if you want your kernel to support the
>           Vision Engraving Systems EP9307 SoM.

--
Alexander Sverdlin.