From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp•com>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver•com>
Cc: "Scott Wood" <oss@buserror•net>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
"Claudiu Manoil" <claudiu.manoil@nxp•com>,
"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba•org>,
"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel•org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Remove some e500/MPC85xx evaluation platforms
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:13:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7nr9png.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADRPPNTyGPZOLwb5e20_FxwkpJ4ayt7VrgAEDgg7XqYSha3vMg@mail.gmail.com>
Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp•com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 1:52 PM Paul Gortmaker
> <paul.gortmaker@windriver•com> wrote:
>>
>> [This RFC is proposed for v6.4 and hence is based off linux-next.]
>>
>> In a similar theme to the e300/MPC83xx evaluation platform removal[1],
>> this targets removal of some 13 --> 21 year old e500/MPC85xx evaluation
>> boards that were produced in limited numbers and primarily made available
>> to hardware/software developers to shape their own boards and BSPs.
>
> These e500 platforms are similar to the e300 platforms that they are
> still being shipped, the targeting market probably caused it to have a
> longer life cycle.
>
...
>
> The difference here from the e300 platforms is that MPC8540ADS,
> MPC8560ADS, MPC8548CDS, MPC8568-MDS are the only reference platforms
> supplied by us for these SoCs. We don't have a separation of
> evaluation platforms vs product-like platforms like we did later.
> That probably means even if they don't look like "hobbyist" friendly
> they are more likely to be still in use.
OK. But what is the chance anyone is booting upstream kernels on them?
I assume no one at NXP is testing upstream on those boards?
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-14 2:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-21 19:46 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Remove some e500/MPC85xx evaluation platforms Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 19:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] powerpc: drop MPC8540_ADS and MPC8560_ADS platform support Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 19:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] powerpc: drop MPC85xx_CDS " Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 19:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] powerpc: drop MPC8568_MDS / P1021_MDS " Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 19:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] powerpc: remove orphaned MPC85xx kernel config fragments Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 20:03 ` Pali Rohár
2023-02-21 21:29 ` Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 21:49 ` Pali Rohár
2023-03-02 23:30 ` Crystal Wood
2023-03-03 0:25 ` Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 20:13 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] Remove some e500/MPC85xx evaluation platforms Pali Rohár
2023-02-21 21:35 ` Paul Gortmaker
2023-02-21 22:00 ` Pali Rohár
2023-02-27 21:16 ` Li Yang
2023-04-14 2:13 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2023-04-14 23:29 ` Leo Li
2023-04-17 15:00 ` Paul Gortmaker
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