Continued need for ATAGS-based booting?

[Svyatoslav Ryhel]

вт, 16 вер. 2025 р. о 17:30 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> пише:
>
> 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?
>

I can submit but that will not be too soon since I am quite occupied
with Linux kernel stuff right now. I'll try to cut some time for this
till the end of the week. Since there are still boards relying on
ATAGS I assume this change is not urgent.

> --
> Tom