RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

2024-07-31 Thread Hector Oron
[ {debian-kernel,debian-boot,debian-release}@d.o are in Bcc so they can track follow up emails at debian-arm ML if interested. ] Dear fellow developers, Debian Installer no longer produces daily builds for this platform: - https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/ Debian Linux kernel packages a

Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread gene heskett
On 7/31/24 16:03, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 02:53:51PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 7/31/24 13:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: We removed a lot of the unused board files at the beginning of 2023, and I'd like to plan ahead for other hardware and feature support that can be remo

Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 02:53:51PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/31/24 13:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > We removed a lot of the unused board files at the beginning of > > 2023, and I'd like to plan ahead for other hardware and feature > > support that can be removed after the next stable kernel

Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 07:29:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > === early ARMv6 === > > This is the ARM1136r0p in NXP i.MX31 and OMAP24xx, which in > practice means just the Nokia N8xx tablet. > It causes a lot of pain to support in the kernel since it > requires special hacks to support in

Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread gene heskett
On 7/31/24 13:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: We removed a lot of the unused board files at the beginning of 2023, and I'd like to plan ahead for other hardware and feature support that can be removed after the next stable kernel (linux-6.12). TL;DR: I think we can deprecate toolchain support for ARMv4

[RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread Arnd Bergmann
We removed a lot of the unused board files at the beginning of 2023, and I'd like to plan ahead for other hardware and feature support that can be removed after the next stable kernel (linux-6.12). TL;DR: I think we can deprecate toolchain support for ARMv4 (pre-thumb), iWMMXt, BE32 and OABI (-mab