Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] powerpc: dts: Remove MPC5xxx platforms

From: Anatolij Gustschin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:26:37 +0200

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:38:08 +1100
Stephen Rothwell [email-masked] wrote:

>Hi Rob,
>
>On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:34:56 -0500 Rob Herring <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> The mpc5xxx platforms have had dts warnings for some time which no one
>> seems to care to fix, so let's just remove the dts files.
>> 
>> According to Arnd:
>> "Specifically, MPC5200B has a 15 year lifetime, which ends in
>> 11 months from now. The original bplan/Genesi Efika 5K2 was
>> quite popular at the time it came out, and there are probably
>> still some of those hanging around, but they came with Open
>> Firmware rather than relying on the dts files that ship with the
>> kernel.
>> 
>> Grant Likely was the original maintainer for MPC52xx until 2011,
>> Anatolij Gustschin is still listed as maintainer since then but hasn't
>> been active in it for a while either. Anatolij can probably best judge
>> which of these boards are still in going to be used with future kernels,
>> but I suspect once you start removing bits from 52xx, the newer
>> but less common 512x platform can go away as well."
>> 
>> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>> Sending this out as a feeler to see if anyone cares. If anyone does, 
>> please fix the warnings.

I've sent patches to fix the warnings.
  
Thanks,

Anatolij