[PATCH 0/4] Fix omap-iommu bitrot

Joerg Roedel joro at 8bytes.org
Wed Oct 30 05:38:11 PDT 2024


On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 12:20:31PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Why that? There was a discussion and everyone agreed to remove omap2,
> but not omap3 and later.

I raised this question to make sure the things we maintain are still
relevant. Developer and maintainers time is limited and we should not
spend it on stuff that nobody uses.

> There are some devices besides the PandaBoard. I am aware of these where
> this is relevant: Epson BT200, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Pyra Handheld
> (in production) and we are currently thinking about producing a tiny series
> of the DM3730 based GTA04A5 with spare parts.
> 
> And of course we want to participate from the latest and greatest upstream changes.

Okay, if there are still real users for latest mainline kernels on this
hardware, then the effort is justified.

Regards,

	Joerg



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