[PATCH v2 12/19] ARM: PXA: mark remaining board files as deprecated
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-07-01 21:25:57
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> In the 2021 board file removal, the gumstix and sharpsl support was left around in order to make it easier to convert more of the PXA platform to device tree, given that both platforms had some level of support in qemu. As far as I can tell, nobody has worked on additional DT conversion in that time, and qemu has in turn deprecated the entire PXA platform. Schedule the remaining board files for removal now, as they are unlikely to be of any help in the future. If anyone wants to revive support for these machines, they can obviously still contribute device tree based code and work on updating the corresponding drivers. Any drivers that are only usable on legacy PXA board files can also get removed along with the boards, or saved by adding devicetree support. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> --- arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig | 4 ---- arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig
index 396680975506..e7a7ed2b7ef7 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/pxa_defconfig@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ CONFIG_PROFILING=y CONFIG_KEXEC=y # CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V7 is not set CONFIG_ARCH_PXA=y -CONFIG_ARCH_GUMSTIX=y -CONFIG_PXA_SHARPSL=y -CONFIG_MACH_AKITA=y -CONFIG_MACH_BORZOI=y CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER=8 CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=/dev/ram0 ro" CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig
index 66e26990e2c8..1fa282a9ef38 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig@@ -58,12 +58,15 @@ if ATAGS comment "Legacy board files" config ARCH_GUMSTIX - bool "Gumstix XScale 255 boards" + bool "Gumstix XScale 255 boards (DEPRECATED)" select PXA25x help Say Y here if you intend to run this kernel on Basix, Connex, ws-200ax, ws-400ax systems + Support for this machine will go away in early 2027, + unless it gets converted to device tree. + choice prompt "Gumstix Carrier/Expansion Board" depends on ARCH_GUMSTIX
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ config GUMSTIX_AM300EPD endchoice config PXA_SHARPSL - bool "SHARP Zaurus SL-5600, SL-C7xx and SL-Cxx00 Models" + bool "SHARP Zaurus SL-5600, SL-C7xx and SL-Cxx00 Models (DEPRECATED)" select SHARP_PARAM select SHARP_SCOOP help
@@ -87,6 +90,9 @@ config PXA_SHARPSL SL-C3000 (Spitz), SL-C3100 (Borzoi) or SL-C6000x (Tosa) handheld computer. + Support for these machines will go away in early 2027, + unless they get converted to device tree. + config PXA_SHARPSL_DETECT_MACH_ID bool "Detect machine ID at run-time in the decompressor" depends on PXA_SHARPSL
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