Re: [PATCH v2 14/19] ARM: mark mach-sa1100 as deprecated

Linus Walleij <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jul 2026 14:30:34 +0200

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> If anyone is still running one of these four machines and planning
> to keep updating their kernels, please speak up now so we can adapt
> the plans as needed.
>
> If nobody is found using StrongARM1100 any more, it can be removing
> during 2027, leaving 6.12-LTS as the last longterm support kernel
> for it.

I thought for a while I would do it but didn't have the time or
energy, so I dropped the ball on this.

That said, the current LLM code agents are a bliss for tedious
tasks like this, it should be pretty straight-forward to convert
SA1100 to DT-only if (and only if) there is active interest.

Yours,
Linus Walleij