[PATCH 06/13] ARM: omap2: remove omap24xx support

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> The omap24xx SoC platform was used in the Nokia N800 and N810 tablets
> released on 2007 and was among the first ARMv6 CPUs in products that
> made it into products.
>
> Unfortunately the early ARM1136r0 CPU cores had a number of quirks that
> caused a disproportionate amount of work to keep them compatible with
> later ARMv6K/v7/v8 implementations.
>
> Drop the support for this SoC in order to allow removing ARM1136r0.
>
> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
> Cc: Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at baylibre.com>
> Cc: Roger Quadros <rogerq at kernel.org>
> Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul at pwsan.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
> Cc: Tero Kristo <kristo at kernel.org>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-fbdev at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: linux-clk at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Since Aaro says it can go, it can go.

If the n800 had a PostmarketOS port things would be different,
but it does not.

Yours,
Linus Walleij