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

On Fri, Jul 3, 2026, at 14:30, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.

Right, and of course we can always bring it back later if
we someone does a DT port, we would just treat it as a new
platform then. I had started cleaning up
arch/arm/mach-sa1100/include/mach/ at some point in the past
but gave up as it got too hard to untangle those without
breaking stuff. A new port would likely be easier there.

       Arnd