[PATCH next 2/2] rockchip: remove support for Theobroma Systems RK3368 Lion

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 at 18:41, Alex Bee <knaerzche at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Am 20.06.24 um 19:08 schrieb Tom Rini:
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 07:03:26PM +0200, Alex Bee wrote:
> >> Am 20.06.24 um 12:24 schrieb Quentin Schulz:
> >>> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
> >>>
> >>> No meaningful changes were made to this SoM since February 2021. Nobody
> >>> from Theobroma has booted anything recent on that product since July
> >>> 2021 at the latest. The product isn't available to buy anymore and
> >>> disappeared from our website.
> >>>
> >>> This product is therefore unmaintained and it would be disingenuous to
> >>> say the opposite, so drop support for RK3368 Lion.
> >>>
> >>> If you're a user of Lion, feel free to revert this patch or contact our
> >>> sales/support department.
> >> That's a pretty interesting support-strategy. While I really don't care for
> >> this board, please don't go ahead and remove the whole TPL-/SPL-part for
> >> RK3368 in yet another pointless "cleanup"  only because lion was one the of
> >> last/only user. Even if EOL RK3368 is getting finally interesting in
> >> regards of display pipeline as we are finally getting a OSS gpu driver [0].
> >> I'm planning to add a board which uses TPL/SPL soonish (when my rare spare
> >> time allows).
> > Please update the MAINTAINERS file for the relevant to your future
> > platform, or even better possibly get a skeleton of this platform
> > posted. Thanks.
> >
> I don't think the whole platform would get removed as it has several users
> (and is maintained) - I just was a bit worried that TPL/SPL support could
> get removed, but now noticed there is one more user: evb-px5. So: sorry for
> noise.
> So I will go the usual way via upstream DT (linux tree) addition and so
> forth.

It's easy enough to bring back the pieces from git, I have a geekbox
somewhere I've always meant to take a closer look at.