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

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Jul 1 04:43:07 PDT 2022


On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 12:54 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 1:32 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 10:43 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:

> > > davinci
> > >
> > > DT conversion has stalled, and there are 12 remaining board files,
> > > mostly for evaluation machines. No idea if any are still in use.
> >
> > TI is semi-actively maintaining DaVinci, I wonder if we can send
> > the message that this needs to be converted to DT pronto to live
> > on?
>
> I assume Sekhar and Bartosz have a plan. As Tony said, the
> important machines are the DA850 ones that are already converted.

TI is OK with having these removed, my gpiod-conversion patches
has been resent a few merge windows without getting merged or
tested. I will send patches to simply delete them,
then the hobbyists can take it from there if they don't like it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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