Continued need for ATAGS-based booting?

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:05:58PM +0300, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> 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
> 
> Thank you for your support! Have a nice day.

That's good. Are you going to submit a patch for the defconfigs or
should I?

-- 
Tom
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