Over the past ten years, new machine support was based on device tree,
and an initial set of about 400 boards using ATAGS with boardfile
for booting were grandfathered in, with about half of them either
removed or converted to DT over time.
Based on the recent mailing list discussion I started, I have now
turned the findings into a set of patches that marks most board files as
'depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES', leaving only 38 of the 196 boards.
For the boards that are marked as unused, there are two final chances
for potential users: The removal is scheduled to take place after the
longterm stable kernel at the end of 2022, so users can stay on that
version for another few years, and if anyone still has one of these
machines and is planning to keep updating kernels beyond that version,
they can speak up now to have their boards taken off the list again.
Waiting for the LTS release also makes sure that there will be at
least one longterm kernel that contains the recent multiplatform
conversion along while still supporting all legacy boards.
The short summary of the current status is:
- The s3c24xx, cns3xxx, iop32x and mv78xx0 platforms have no known
users and will be removed entirely.
- The mmp and davinci platforms have DT support for the important
machines and will become DT-only after this.
- s3c64xx, dove, orion5x, and pxa keep some board files to allow
those to be migrated over to DT more easily, but most board files
are getting removed now. DT support on these platforms is partially
working but requires changes to additional drivers for the other
boards.
- omap1, ep93xx, sa1100, footbridge and rpc have no DT support at
the moment but have some boards with known users. Removing the board
files that nobody uses should make it easier to try a DT conversion
if anyone cares.
There is no explicit timeline what happens with the boards that remain
after this removal, but I expect to revisit this in the future, and
with most boards gone, there will be a good time to do a treewide
review of platform drivers that never gained DT support and have no
remaining in-tree board files.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/CAK8P3a0Z9vGEQbVRBo84bSyPFM-LF+hs5w8ZA51g2Z+NsdtDQA@mail.gmail.com/
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Merge tag 'arm-boardfiles-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc
Pull ARM boardfile deprecation from Arnd Bergmann:
"Over the past ten years, new machine support was based on device tree,
and an initial set of about 400 boards using ATAGS with boardfile for
booting were grandfathered in, with about half of them either removed
or converted to DT over time.
Based on the recent mailing list discussion I started, I have now
turned the findings into a set of patches that marks most board files
as 'depends on UNUSED_BOARD_FILES', leaving only 38 of the 196 boards.
For the boards that are marked as unused, there are two final chances
for potential users: The removal is scheduled to take place after the
longterm stable kernel at the end of 2022, so users can stay on that
version for another few years, and if anyone still has one of these
machines and is planning to keep updating kernels beyond that version,
they can speak up now to have their boards taken off the list again.
Waiting for the LTS release also makes sure that there will be at
least one longterm kernel that contains the recent multiplatform
conversion along while still supporting all legacy boards.
The short summary of the current status is:
- The s3c24xx, cns3xxx, iop32x and mv78xx0 platforms have no known
users and will be removed entirely.
- The mmp and davinci platforms have DT support for the important
machines and will become DT-only after this.
- s3c64xx, dove, orion5x, and pxa keep some board files to allow
those to be migrated over to DT more easily, but most board files
are getting removed now. DT support on these platforms is partially
working but requires changes to additional drivers for the other
boards.
- omap1, ep93xx, sa1100, footbridge and rpc have no DT support at the
moment but have some boards with known users. Removing the board
files that nobody uses should make it easier to try a DT conversion
if anyone cares.
There is no explicit timeline what happens with the boards that remain
after this removal, but I expect to revisit this in the future, and
with most boards gone, there will be a good time to do a treewide
review of platform drivers that never gained DT support and have no
remaining in-tree board files"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/CAK8P3a0Z9vGEQbVRBo84bSyPFM-LF+hs5w8ZA51g2Z+NsdtDQA@mail.gmail.com/
* tag 'arm-boardfiles-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc:
ARM: cns3xxx: add CONFIG_UNUSED_BOARD_FILES dependency
ARM: iop32x: mark as unused
ARM: s3c: mark most board files as unused
ARM: omap1: add Kconfig dependencies for unused boards
ARM: sa1100: mark most boards as unused
ARM: footbridge: mark cats board for removal
ARM: mmp: mark all board files for removal
ARM: ep93xx: mark most board files as unused
ARM: davinci: mark all ATAGS board files as unused
ARM: orion: add ATAGS dependencies
ARM: pxa: add Kconfig dependencies for ATAGS based boards
ARM: add CONFIG_UNUSED_BOARD_FILES
ARM: add ATAGS dependencies to non-DT platforms
The s3c24xx platform is already scheduled for removal in early 2023,
with s3c64xx meeting the same fate a year later.
Most of the s3c64xx board files appear to be unused, as the better
maintained ones already got converted to DT. The main exception is
the Wolfson Cragganmore board, which remains in use as the reference
design for Wolfson/Cirrus devices. As the other boards get removed,
this one stays around along with the DT based machines.
The s3c6400_defconfig file now disables the unused boards, while the
s3c24xx defconfig files all turn on CONFIG_UNUSED_BOARD_FILES to
remain usable.
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Cc: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
There are a total of eight platforms that only suppor ATAGS based boot
with board files but no devicetree booting.
For dove, the DT support is part of the mvebu platform, which shares
driver but no code in arch/arm.
Most of these will never get converted to DT, and the majority of the
board files appear to be entirely unused already. There are still known
users on a few machines, and there may be interest in converting some
omap1, ep93xx or footbridge machines over in the future.
For the moment, just add a Kconfig dependency to hide these platforms
completely when CONFIG_ATAGS is disabled, and reorder the priority
of the options: Rather than offering to turn ATAGS off for platforms
that have DT support, make it a top-level setting that determines
which platforms are visible.
The s3c24xx platform supports one machine with DT support, but it
cannot be built without also including ATAGS support, and the
entire platform is scheduled for removal, so leaving the entire
platform behind a dependency seems good enough.
All defconfig files should keep working, as the option remains default
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The convention for indentation seems to be a single tab. Help text is
further indented by an additional two whitespaces. Fix the lines that
violate these rules.
While add it, replace tabs before comments with whitespaces (which seems to
be more common), add a missing trailing endif comment and squeeze multiple
empty lines.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220609082154.115301-3-juerg.haefliger@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
This series has been 12 years in the making, it mostly finishes the
work that was started with the founding of Linaro to clean up platform
support in the kernel.
The largest change here is a cleanup of the omap1 platform, which
is the final ARM machine type to get converted to the common-clk
subsystem. All the omap1 specific drivers are now made independent of the
mach/*.h headers to allow the platform to be part of a generic ARMv4/v5
multiplatform kernel. The last bit that enables this support is still
missing here while we wait for some last dependencies to make it into
the mainline kernel through other subsystems.
The s3c24xx, ixp4xx, iop32x, ep93xx and dove platforms were all almost
at the point of allowing multiplatform kernels, this work gets completed
here along with a few additional cleanup. At the same time, the s3c24xx
and s3c64xx are now deprecated and expected to get removed in the future.
The PXA and OMAP1 bits are in a separate branch because of dependencies.
Once both branches are merged, only the three Intel StrongARM platforms
(RiscPC, Footbridge/NetWinder and StrongARM1100) need separate kernels,
and there are no plans to include these.
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Merge tag 'arm-multiplatform-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc
Pull ARMv4T/v5 multiplatform support from Arnd Bergmann:
"This series has been 12 years in the making, it mostly finishes the
work that was started with the founding of Linaro to clean up platform
support in the kernel.
The largest change here is a cleanup of the omap1 platform, which is
the final ARM machine type to get converted to the common-clk
subsystem. All the omap1 specific drivers are now made independent of
the mach/*.h headers to allow the platform to be part of a generic
ARMv4/v5 multiplatform kernel.
The last bit that enables this support is still missing here while we
wait for some last dependencies to make it into the mainline kernel
through other subsystems.
The s3c24xx, ixp4xx, iop32x, ep93xx and dove platforms were all almost
at the point of allowing multiplatform kernels, this work gets
completed here along with a few additional cleanup. At the same time,
the s3c24xx and s3c64xx are now deprecated and expected to get removed
in the future.
The PXA and OMAP1 bits are in a separate branch because of
dependencies. Once both branches are merged, only the three Intel
StrongARM platforms (RiscPC, Footbridge/NetWinder and StrongARM1100)
need separate kernels, and there are no plans to include these"
* tag 'arm-multiplatform-5.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (61 commits)
ARM: ixp4xx: Consolidate Kconfig fixing issue
ARM: versatile: Add missing of_node_put in dcscb_init
ARM: config: Refresh IXP4xx config after multiplatform
ARM: omap1: add back omap_set_dma_priority() stub
ARM: omap: fix missing declaration warnings
ARM: omap: fix address space warnings from sparse
ARM: spear: remove include/mach/ subdirectory
ARM: davinci: remove include/mach/ subdirectory
ARM: omap2: remove include/mach/ subdirectory
integrator: remove empty ap_init_early()
ARM: s3c: fix include path
MAINTAINERS: omap1: Add Janusz as an additional maintainer
ARM: omap1: htc_herald: fix typos in comments
ARM: OMAP1: fix typos in comments
ARM: OMAP1: clock: Remove noop code
ARM: OMAP1: clock: Remove unused code
ARM: OMAP1: clock: Fix UART rate reporting algorithm
ARM: OMAP1: clock: Fix early UART rate issues
ARM: OMAP1: Prepare for conversion of OMAP1 clocks to CCF
ARM: omap1: fix build with no SoC selected
...
The Samsung S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms are very old designs. S3C2416
was introduced in 2008 and S3C6410 in 2009/2010. They are not widely
available anymore - out-of-stock on FriendlyArm (one of manufacturers of
boards) and only few specialist stores still offer them for quite a high
price.
The community around these platforms was not very active, so I suspect
no one really uses them anymore. Maintenance takes precious time so
there is little sense in keeping them alive if there are no real users.
Let's mark all S3C24xx and S3C64xx platforms as deprecated and mention
possible removal in after 2022 for the first and 2024 for the lattere.
The deprecation message will be as text in Kconfig, build message (not a
warning though) and runtime print error.
If there are any users, they might respond and postpone the removal.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220407072319.75614-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Choosing big-endian vs little-endian kernels in Kconfig has not worked
correctly since the introduction of CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM a long
time ago.
The problems is that CONFIG_BIG_ENDIAN depends on
ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN, which can set by any one platform
in the config, but would actually have to be supported by all
of them.
This was mostly ok for ARMv6/ARMv7 builds, since these are BE8 and
tend to just work aside from problems in nonportable device drivers.
For ARMv4/v5 machines, CONFIG_BIG_ENDIAN and CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
were never set together, so this was disabled on all those machines
except for IXP4xx.
As IXP4xx can now become part of ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, it seems better to
formalize this logic: all ARMv4/v5 platforms get an explicit dependency
on being either big-endian (ixp4xx) or little-endian (the rest). We may
want to fix ixp4xx in the future to support both, but it does not work
in LE mode at the moment.
For the ARMv6/v7 platforms, there are two ways this could be handled
a) allow both modes only for platforms selecting
'ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN' today, but only LE mode for the
others, given that these were added intentionally at some
point.
b) allow both modes everwhere, given that it was already possible
to build that way by e.g. selecting ARCH_VIRT, and that the
list is not an accurate reflection of which platforms may or
may not work.
Out of these, I picked b) because it seemed slighly more logical
to me.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
With the custom ISA I/O and the missing sparse-irq support
out of the way, s3c24xx can now be built into the same
kernel as all other ARM9 based platforms.
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
BAST is the one machine that theoretically supports unmodified ISA
drivers for hardware on its PC/104 connector, using a custom version of
the inb()/outb() and inw()/outw() macros.
This is incompatible with the generic version used in asm/io.h, and
can't easily be used in a multiplatform kernel.
Removing the special case for 16-bit I/O port access on BAST gets us
closer to multiplatform, at the expense of any PC/104 users with 16-bit
cards having to either use an older kernel or modify their ISA drivers
to manually ioremap() the area and use readw()/write() in place of
inw()/outw(). Either way is probably ok, given that there is a
recurring discussion about dropping s3c24xx altogether, and many
traditional ISA drivers are already gone.
Machines other than BAST already have no support for ISA drivers, though a
couple of them do map one of the external chip-selects into the ISA port
range, using the same address for 8-bit and 16-bit I/O. It is unlikely
that anything actually uses this mapping, but it's also easy to keep
this working by mapping it to the normal platform-independent PCI I/O
base that is otherwise unused on s3c24xx.
The mach/map-base.h file is no longer referenced in global headers and
can be moved into the platform directory.
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The only effect of this symbol is to select PWM_SAMSUNG. Drop it and fix
the affected defconfigs to still keep PWM_SAMSUNG=y. Developers using
MACH_NEO1973_GTA02 and/or MACH_RX1950 now have to manually select PWM and
PWM_SAMSUNG (and get the freedom to select is as a module or not at all).
A side effect of this change is that allmodconfig now contains
PWM_SAMSUNG=m (which was =y before).
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220328082638.112185-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
s3c24xx and s3c64xx have a lot in common, but are split across three
separate directories, which makes the interaction of the header files
more complicated than necessary.
Move all three directories into a new mach-s3c, with a minimal
set of changes to each file.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
[krzk: Rebase, add s3c24xx and s3c64xx suffix to several files, add SPDX
headers to new files, remove plat-samsung from MAINTAINERS]
Co-developed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200806182059.2431-39-krzk@kernel.org
