Fwd: Re: U-Boot and DM9000 eth driver support

[Marcel Ziswiler]

Just noticed this having been only a private discussion.

CCing mailing list as well.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
To: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com>
Cc: marex at denx.de <marex at denx.de>, Tsi-Chung.Liew at nxp.com <Tsi-Chung.Liew at nxp.com>, stelian at popies.net
<stelian at popies.net>, ezequiel at collabora.com <ezequiel at collabora.com>, weber at corscience.de
<weber at corscience.de>
Subject: Re: U-Boot and DM9000 eth driver support
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 08:15:16 -0400

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:23:11AM +0000, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
> Hi Marek
> 
> On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 22:12 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 3/30/22 20:36, Tom Rini wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > > 
> > > As I was doing some Kconfig migrations I noticed that there's symbols
> > > for the DM9000 ethernet driver that haven't been migrated.  In turn
> > > however, that driver hasn't been migrated to DM yet, and the deadline
> > > for that was v2020.07.  Since that means I'll be posting patches to drop
> > > the driver later this year, I wanted to give everyone a heads-up now to
> > > see if anyone is able to convert the driver since you're listed as
> > > maintainers of a platform that uses it.  Thanks!
> > 
> > +CC Marcel, since this is used on Colibri PXA270 .
> 
> Yeah, I guess we could also just drop Colibri PXA270 support as we stopped selling those quite a while ago.
> Unless, of course, somebody would be interested to keep it further maintained...
> 
> I can send a removal commit as an RFC and we will see. Okay?

Yes, board removals (JFYI, everyone on the list) is also a valid path
forward.

-- 
Tom