From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

The Marvell Armada 510 (Dove) platform is supported both as devicetree
and atags/boardfile variants, with varying degrees of hardware support.

Russell was the last known user of the board file version, and there
are very few users overall. Unless Russell still needs this variant,
let's remove after the next LTS kernel, leaving the CONFIG_MACH_DOVE
variant with devicetree.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 arch/arm/mach-dove/Kconfig | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-dove/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-dove/Kconfig
index 996888ffcfe7..f547120e223e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-dove/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-dove/Kconfig

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 menuconfig ARCH_DOVE
-       bool "Marvell Dove" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
+       bool "Marvell Dove (DEPRECATED)" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
        depends on ATAGS
        select CPU_PJ4
        select GPIOLIB

@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ menuconfig ARCH_DOVE
        select PM_GENERIC_DOMAINS if PM
        select PCI_QUIRKS if PCI
        help
-         Support for the Marvell Dove SoC 88AP510
+         Support for the Marvell Dove SoC 88AP510 using board files.
+
+         Support for this machine will be removed in early 2027, unless
+         there is a strong reason to keep it. Users should migrate to
+         the devicetree-enabled version (CONFIG_MACH_DOVE) instead.

 if ARCH_DOVE

--

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