On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:13:10 -0600
Rob Herring [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

Calxeda has been defunct for 6 years now. Use of Calxeda servers carried
on for some time afterwards primarily as distro builders for 32-bit ARM.
AFAIK, those systems have been retired in favor of 32-bit VMs on 64-bit
hosts.

The other use of Calxeda Midway I'm aware of was testing 32-bit ARM KVM
support as there are few or no other systems with enough RAM and LPAE. Now
32-bit KVM host support is getting removed[1].

While it's not much maintenance to support, I don't care to convert the
Calxeda DT bindings to schema nor fix any resulting errors in the dts files
(which already don't exactly match what's shipping in firmware).

While every kernel maintainer seems always happy to take patches with a negative diffstat, I wonder if this is really justification enough to remove a perfectly working platform. I don't really know about any active users, but experience tells that some platforms really are used for quite a long time, even if they are somewhat obscure. N900 or Netwinder, anyone?

So to not give the impression that actually *everyone* (from that small subset of people actively reading the kernel list) is happy with that, I think that having support for at least Midway would be useful. On the one hand it's a decent LPAE platform (with memory actually exceeding 4GB), and on the other hand it's something with capable I/O (SATA) and networking, so one can actually stress test the system. Which is the reason I was using that for KVM testing, but even with that probably going away now there remain still some use cases, and be it for general ARM(32) testing.

I don't particularly care about the more optional parts like EDAC, cpuidle, or cpufreq, but I wonder if keeping in at least the rather small SATA and XGMAC drivers and basic platform support is feasible.
If YAML DT bindings are used as an excuse, I am more than happy to convert those over.

And if anyone has any particular gripes with some code, maybe there is a way to fix that instead of removing it? I was always wondering if we could get rid of the mach-highbank directory, for instance. I think most of it is Highbank (Cortex-A9) related.

Cheers,
Andre

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200210141324.21090-1-maz@kernel.org/ (local)

Rob Herring (11):
  vfio: Remove Calxeda XGMAC reset driver
  ata: Remove Calxeda AHCI driver
  cpuidle: Remove Calxeda driver
  cpufreq: Remove Calxeda driver
  EDAC: Remove Calxeda drivers
  iommu: arm-smmu: Remove Calxeda secure mode quirk
  net: Remove Calxeda XGMAC driver
  clk: Remove Calxeda driver
  ARM: Remove Calxeda platform support
  ARM: dts: Remove Calxeda platforms
  dt-bindings: Remove Calxeda platforms bindings

 .../devicetree/bindings/arm/calxeda.yaml      |   22 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/arm/calxeda/l2ecc.txt |   15 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/ata/sata_highbank.txt |   44 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/clock/calxeda.txt     |   17 -
 .../memory-controllers/calxeda-ddr-ctrlr.txt  |   16 -
 .../devicetree/bindings/net/calxeda-xgmac.txt |   18 -
 .../bindings/phy/calxeda-combophy.txt         |   17 -
 MAINTAINERS                                   |   14 -
 arch/arm/Kconfig                              |    2 -
 arch/arm/Kconfig.debug                        |   12 +-
 arch/arm/Makefile                             |    1 -
 arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile                    |    3 -
 arch/arm/boot/dts/ecx-2000.dts                |  103 -
 arch/arm/boot/dts/ecx-common.dtsi             |  230 --
 arch/arm/boot/dts/highbank.dts                |  161 --
 arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig           |    5 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig                |   19 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/Makefile               |    4 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/core.h                 |   18 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c             |  175 --
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/pm.c                   |   49 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/smc.S                  |   25 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/sysregs.h              |   75 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/system.c               |   22 -
 drivers/ata/Kconfig                           |    9 -
 drivers/ata/Makefile                          |    1 -
 drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c                   |  635 ------
 drivers/clk/Makefile                          |    1 -
 drivers/clk/clk-highbank.c                    |  329 ---
 drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm                   |   10 -
 drivers/cpufreq/Makefile                      |    3 +-
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt-platdev.c          |    3 -
 drivers/cpufreq/highbank-cpufreq.c            |  106 -
 drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm                   |    7 -
 drivers/cpuidle/Makefile                      |    1 -
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c             |   72 -
 drivers/edac/Kconfig                          |   14 -
 drivers/edac/Makefile                         |    3 -
 drivers/edac/highbank_l2_edac.c               |  142 --
 drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c               |  272 ---
 drivers/iommu/arm-smmu-impl.c                 |   43 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig                  |    1 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/Makefile                 |    1 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/Kconfig          |    9 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/Makefile         |    2 -
 drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/xgmac.c          | 1927 -----------------
 drivers/vfio/platform/reset/Kconfig           |    8 -
 drivers/vfio/platform/reset/Makefile          |    2 -
 .../reset/vfio_platform_calxedaxgmac.c        |   74 -
 49 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4740 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/calxeda.yaml
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/calxeda/l2ecc.txt
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ata/sata_highbank.txt
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/calxeda.txt
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/calxeda-ddr-ctrlr.txt
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/calxeda-xgmac.txt
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/calxeda-combophy.txt
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/ecx-2000.dts
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/ecx-common.dtsi
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/boot/dts/highbank.dts
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/Makefile
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/core.h
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/highbank.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/pm.c
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/smc.S
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/sysregs.h
 delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-highbank/system.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/clk/clk-highbank.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/cpufreq/highbank-cpufreq.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-calxeda.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/edac/highbank_l2_edac.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/edac/highbank_mc_edac.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/Kconfig
 delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/Makefile
 delete mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/calxeda/xgmac.c
 delete mode 100644 drivers/vfio/platform/reset/vfio_platform_calxedaxgmac.c


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