Re: [v2] Old platforms: bring out your dead

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 8:00 PM Krzysztof Hałasa [off-list ref] wrote:

Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

For these I received no reply yet. Again, these will stay for the moment
unless I get a reply, but if anyone has more information, please reply
here to document the status (adding a few more people to Cc):

* cns3xxx -- added in 2010, last fixed in 2019, probably no users left

The following is what I sent to you a week ago. I don't say whether
CNS3xxx support should stay or not, of course.

Subject: Re: cns3xxx PCIe domain support

Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

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For the cns3xxx case, I wonder if anyone actually cares. If
there are still users, the treewide change would make it trivial
to set it up right, while backporting would be harder. I noticed
that openwrt removed cns3xxx support in August with the
explanation that the platform is not used much anymore,
and I suspect that any users outside of openwrt stopped updating
their kernels long ago.

I'm still using CNS3xxx-based Gateworks' boards (Laguna), with some
custom patch set, but the last kernels are over 2 years old. I have some
plan to update, but the probability it will happen very soon is rather
low. I guess I will test and, if needed, fix it when the time comes.

I'm not using them with OpenWrt, though.
They are basically a platform for (the old, parallel, not express)
mini-PCI cards and similar stuff. Nothing connected to the Internet etc.

Hi Krzysztof,

Thanks for your reply. I think I misremembered it from when you
originally said this in the other thread and thought you meant
you were unlikely to ever do it, not just for doing it soon.

No need to rush things then by removing it prematurely then, but it
might help if you could point to a git tree with your last working patches
in case someone else has a Laguna and wants to update it to a more
recent kernel before you do.

         Arnd

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