[PATCH v2 00/15] ARM: oxnas support removal

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 06:58:25PM +0200, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> With [1] removing MPCore SMP support, this makes the OX820 barely usable,
> associated with a clear lack of maintainance, development and migration to
> dt-schema it's clear that Linux support for OX810 and OX820 should be removed.
> 
> In addition, the OX810 hasn't been booted for years and isn't even present
> in an ARM config file.
> 
> For the OX820, lack of USB and SATA support makes the platform not usable
> in the current Linux support and relies on off-tree drivers hacked from the
> vendor (defunct for years) sources.
> 
> The last users are in the OpenWRT distribution, and today's removal means
> support will still be in stable 6.1 LTS kernel until end of 2026.
> 
> If someone wants to take over the development even with lack of SMP, I'll
> be happy to hand off maintainance.
> 
> It has been a fun time adding support for this architecture, but it's time
> to get over!
> 
> Now arch/arm parts are removed, now it's time to remove the remaining stuff.

For all non-DT patches
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy at kernel.org>

I always like negative statistics of a magnitude order!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko