[PATCH 12/13] ARM: at91: remove samv7 support

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue Sep 8 14:09:47 PDT 2026


On Tue, Sep 08, 2026 at 05:28:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> The Atmel at91 line, now known as Microchip SAM contains both
> SoCs using ARM926 and Cortex-A CPUs as well as a number of
> microcontrollers. Only a single one of those MCUs currently
> has Linux support, and has no known users.
> 
> The samv7 platform was deprecated in Linux-7.3LTS, which will
> remain supported a while longer after it is gone from mainline.
> 
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at microchip.com>
> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>
> Cc: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at tuxon.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig.debug      | 10 ----------
>  arch/arm/mach-at91/Kconfig  | 11 +----------
>  arch/arm/mach-at91/Makefile |  1 -
>  arch/arm/mach-at91/samv7.c  | 17 -----------------
>  drivers/soc/atmel/soc.c     | 36 ------------------------------------
>  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 74 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-at91/samv7.c

Do you want to drop all the samv7 platform compatibles from at91.yaml? 
Are there non-Linux users using DT?

Rob



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