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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:58:32 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:43 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Intel Moorestown and Medfield are quite old Intel Atom based
> 32-bit platforms, which were in limited use in some Android phones,
> tablets and consumer electronics more than eight years ago.
>
> There are no bugs or problems ever reported outside from Intel
> for breaking any of that platforms for years. It seems no real
> users exists who run more or less fresh kernel on it. The commit
> 05f4434bc130 ("ASoC: Intel: remove mfld_machine") also in align
> with this theory.
>
> Due to above and to reduce a burden of supporting outdated drivers
> we remove the support of outdated platforms completely.
>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Does this mean drivers/sfi/ can get killed off along with
arch/x86/platforms/{intel-mid,sfi}, or are there still other
machines using that?

         Arnd