Continued need for ATAGS-based booting?

[Wolfgang Wallner]

> пн, 15 вер. 2025 р. о 23:38 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> пише:
> >
> > As part of working on cleaning up documentation, I ended up seeing 
> > just how few boards still enable support for ATAGS-based OS booting. 
> > In fact, the list is:
> > brcp150 brcp170 brcp1_1r brcp1_1r_switch brcp1_2r brsmarc2 chagall 
> > dockstar dreamplug ds109 ds116 ds414 endeavoru goflexhome grouper 
> > icnova-a20-swac iconnect ideapad-yoga-11 lschlv2 lsxhl mocha mot n1
> > n2350 nsa310s nsa325 openrd_base openrd_client openrd_ultimate ouya 
> > picasso pogo_e02 pogo_v4 qc750 sheevaplug star stemmy surface-2 
> > surface-rt tegratab tf701t transformer_t20 transformer_t30 x3_t30
> >
> > And my question is, for you board maintainers, do you still need to 
> > actively support booting such old Linux kernels? Or can we disable 
> > this support and then possibly be able to remove the underlying code as well.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Tom
>
> Hello Tom!
>
> Maintainers of some boards in interest have agreed that support for ATAGS-based OS booting can/should be removed from the boards in the following list:
> chagall endeavoru grouper ideapad-yoga-11 mocha mot n1 ouya picasso
> qc750 star surface-2 surface-rt tegratab tf701t transformer_t20
> transformer_t30 x3_t30


We can also remove it for:
brcp150
brcp170
brcp1_1r
brcp1_1r_switch
brcp1_2r brsmarc2

I can follow up with a patch series.

Regards, Wolfgang