[PATCH 08/13] ARM: imx: remove nommu support
Giulio Benetti
giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com
Thu Sep 10 09:08:25 PDT 2026
Hi Fabio, Arnd and Jesse,
On 9/9/26 10:21 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>
>> The i.MX platform has grown support for three separate product
>> lines using Cortex-M based microcontrollers over the years:
>>
>> - i.MX RT1050, a high-end microcontroller
>> - Vybrid vf610 suppors running Linux on either the Cortex-A5
>> CPU or the Cortex-M4 MCU
>> - i.MX7D similarly can run Linux on the Cortex-A7 or the
>> Cortex-M4
>>
>> There are no known upstream users of any of those three, so
>> drop support and simplify the platform to assume that an MMU
>> is present.
>>
>> 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: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
>> 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: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
>> Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: imx at lists.linux.dev
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/Makefile | 2 -
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imxrt1050-evk.dts | 72 -
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imxrt1050-pinfunc.h | 993 -----------
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imxrt1050.dtsi | 160 --
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/imx/imxrt1170-pinfunc.h | 1561 -----------------
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/vf/Makefile | 2 -
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/vf/vf610m4-colibri.dts | 61 -
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/vf/vf610m4-cosmic.dts | 88 -
>> arch/arm/boot/dts/nxp/vf/vf610m4.dtsi | 61 -
>> arch/arm/configs/imxrt_defconfig | 35 -
>> arch/arm/configs/vf610m4_defconfig | 39 -
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig | 27 +-
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/Makefile | 3 -
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imx7d-cm4.c | 18 -
>> arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-imxrt.c | 19 -
>
> The imxrt1050-evk dts is used in U-Boot.
>
> Adding Jesse and Giulio, who use this platform in U-Boot.
MMU-less architecture never had a complete support, I agree that it's
time to drop it so:
Acked-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
Best regards
Giulio Benetti
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