[PATCH 02/13] ARM: remove footbridge
Linus Walleij
linusw at kernel.org
Tue Sep 8 10:27:48 PDT 2026
On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> Footbridge was deprecated in 7.3 to be removed along with the other
> StrongARM platforms and most remaining board files.
>
> The main machine here is the NetWinder, which was a popular Arm based
> desktop PC in the late 1990s and contributed to Arm's later success as
> an embedded Linux platform, but was discontinued over 25 years ago and
> is no longer all that useful.
>
> I previously tried to convert this to devicetree in a sensible way but
> gave up due to the platform being too different from modern SoC based
> targets.
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Ralph Siemsen <ralphs at netwinder.org>
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linusw at kernel.org>
I have one of those machines and it boot mainline but I
certainly consider it a paperweight at this point, I can't use
it for anything useful.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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