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Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead
From:   Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
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On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 23:55 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> * c6x: Added in 2011, this has seen very few updates since, but
>     Mark still Acks patches when they come. Like most other DSP platforms,
>     the model of running Linux on a DSP appears to have been obsoleted
>     by using Linux on ARM with on-chip DSP cores running bare-metal code.

Hi Arnd,

So this has been on my mind for a while now. I no longer have working hw
for c6x and TI hasn't been forthcoming with replacements. I'm totally fine
with removing it from mainline. In any case, I'm not really in a position
to go forward as maintainer.

Mark