Re: [PATCH v2 07/19] ARM: update DEPRECATED_PARAM_STRUCT removal timeline

On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 07:36:02AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 2, 2026, at 02:54, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
>> Hi, Arnd,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This configuration option is for the older boot method that preceeded
>>> ATAGS. This was scheduled for removal back in 2001, but the removal
>>> never happened, presumably because nobody cared enough to actually do it,
>>> not because there are any users left.
>>
>> Only netwinder_defconfig selects this option. Do the most recent
>> NetWinder firmware versions actually need it? (LinusW, do you know
>> this?) If not, can't we just drop it entirely?

Support for ATAG was added in firmware v2.0.6 in roughly Jan 1999, 
meanwhile the most recent firmware is v2.3.3 (still 20+ years old).

It is quite safe to disable support for the older parameter method.

>If all StrongARM platforms are on the way out after the LTS kernel,
>I don't see a need to remove this any earlier, even if the chance
>that it's still needed is low.

Also agree with this, might as well remove it all in one go.

Regards,
Ralph