There are a lot of platforms that have not seen any interesting code
changes in the past five years or more.
I made a list and asked around which ones are no longer in use [1], and
received confirmation about six ARM platforms and the TI C6x architecture
that have all reached the end of their life upstream, with no known
users remaining:
- efm32 -- added in 2011, first Cortex-M, no notable changes after 2013
- picoxcell -- added in 2011, abandoned after 2012 acquisition
- prima2 -- added in 20111, no notable changes since 2015
- tango -- added in 2015, sporadic changes until 2017, but abandoned
- u300 -- added in 2009, no notable changes since 2013
- zx --added in 2015 for both 32, 2017 for 64 bit, no notable changes
- arch/c6x -- added in 2011, but work stalled soon after that
A number of other platforms on the original list turned out to still
have users. In some cases there are out-of-tree patches and users
that plan to contribute them in the future, in other cases the code
is complete and works reliably.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8P3a2DZ8xQp7R=H=wewHnT2=a_=M53QsZOueMVEf7tOZLKNg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Merge tag 'arm-platform-removal-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc
Pull ARM SoC platform removals from Arnd Bergmann:
"There are a lot of platforms that have not seen any interesting code
changes in the past five years or more.
I made a list and asked around which ones are no longer in use, and
received confirmation about six ARM platforms and the TI C6x
architecture that have all reached the end of their life upstream,
with no known users remaining:
- efm32 - added in 2011, first Cortex-M, no notable changes after 2013
- picoxcell - added in 2011, abandoned after 2012 acquisition
- prima2 - added in 20111, no notable changes since 2015
- tango - added in 2015, sporadic changes until 2017, but abandoned
- u300 - added in 2009, no notable changes since 2013
- zx - added in 2015 for both 32, 2017 for 64 bit, no notable changes
- arch/c6x - added in 2011, but work stalled soon after that
A number of other platforms on the original list turned out to still
have users. In some cases there are out-of-tree patches and users that
plan to contribute them in the future, in other cases the code is
complete and works reliably"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8P3a2DZ8xQp7R=H=wewHnT2=a_=M53QsZOueMVEf7tOZLKNg@mail.gmail.com/
* tag 'arm-platform-removal-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc:
ARM: remove u300 platform
ARM: remove tango platform
ARM: remove zte zx platform
ARM: remove sirf prima2/atlas platforms
c6x: remove architecture
MAINTAINERS: Remove deleted platform efm32
ARM: drop efm32 platform
ARM: Remove PicoXcell platform support
ARM: dts: Remove PicoXcell platforms
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