[PATCH 09/13] ARM: lpc18xx: remove entire platform

Vladimir Zapolskiy vz at mleia.com
Wed Sep 9 01:28:39 PDT 2026


On 9/8/26 18:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> The NXP LPC18xx and LPC43xx microcontrollers are the more modern
> version of the classic LPC32xx line, but they lack memory management
> units.
> 
> These microcontrollers all remain in production as of 2026, but
> there are no known users running Linux on them.
> 
> The platform was marked deprecated in the 7.3-LTS release, which
> will remain supported for a few more years.
> 
> Remove support for both LPC18xx and LPC43xx.
> 
> 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: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com>
> 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>

Since there is no known users of these pretty old NOMMU platforms in
the Linux kernel, it should be safe to drop them from maintenance.

-- 
Best wishes,
Vladimir



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