Re: [PATCH] ARM: ep93xx: remove MaverickCrunch support

I forward opinion from people currently producing and supporting EP93XX boards:

From: Technologic Systems Support Team <redacted>
To: martinwguy@gmail.com
Cc: jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com

I expect our customers would care if support was dropped.
Unfortunately I don't know to what extent.  I'd like to bring
Jerome Oufella of Savoir Faire Linux into the conversation here,
as he runs the software company who most of our customers
contract through when they need a modern Linux kernel running
on one of our Cirrus Logic EP93XX series single board computers.
I expect his opinion will be more valuable than mine.

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Good morning Jerome,

A member of the Linux Kernel Development community reached out
to us this morning letting us know the community has suggested
dropping support for the MavericCrunch FPU on the EP9302 processor.
Would this impact any of the development your team has been doing
for some of our mutual customers?

From: Jerome Oufella<redacted>

I am aware of a few companies who rely on variants of the TS-7250
running not-too-old LTS releases (4.19, 5.4) to cope with their patch policies.

With Linux 5.10 being the next "Super LTS", this presumably brings its
support lifespan until about 2030, which (I believe) they would be
comfortable with considering the age of the platform.

Jerome Oufella
Vice-President, Technologies
www.savoirfairelinux.com

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