[PATCH 07/13] ARM: imx: remove i.MX31 SoC support
Vladimir Zapolskiy
vz at mleia.com
Wed Sep 9 01:24:34 PDT 2026
On 9/8/26 18:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> The Freescale i.MX31 was an early SoC based on the ARM1136r0 CPU core. It
> was used in the Bug Labs modular computer but ultimately much less
> popular than most other i.MX SoCs.
>
> As the ARM1136r0 support is causing a lot of extra maintenance effort
> to keep alive and there are no known users, remove i.MX31 in order to
> allow removing support for that CPU core altogether.
>
> The related i.MX35 is based on a slightly newer ARM1136r1 CPU core that
> does not have this problem, so there is no reason to remove that.
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Frank Li <Frank.Li at nxp.com>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel at pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt at kernel.org>
> Cc: Conor Dooley <conor+dt at kernel.org>
> Cc: imx at lists.linux.dev
> Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com>
I still do possess a LogicPD i.MX31 Lite board, which boots the upstream
kernel, but there is no plan to maintain it further.
--
Best wishes,
Vladimir
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