Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 21:46:41 +0800
From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	soc@kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] ARM: remove zte zx platform
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 01:48:10PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 
> The ZTE ZX set-top-box SoC platform was added in 2015 by Jun Nie, with
> Baoyou Xie and Shawn Guo subsequently becoming maintainers after the
> addition of the 64-bit variant.
> 
> However, the only machines that were ever supported upstream are the
> reference designs, not actual set-top-box devices that would benefit
> from this support. All ZTE set-top-boxes from the past few years seem
> to be based on third-party SoCs. While there is very little information
> about zx296702 and zx296718 on the web, I found some references to other
> chips from the same family, such as zx296716 and zx296719, which were
> never submitted for upstream support. Finally, there is no support for
> the GPU on either of them, with the lima and panfrost device drivers
> having been added after work on the zx platform had stopped.
> 
> Shawn confirmed that he has not seen any interest in this platform for
> the past four years, and that it can be removed.
> 
> Thanks to Jun and Shawn for maintaining this platform over the past
> five years.
> 
> Cc: Jun Nie <jun.nie@linaro.org>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>