On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 02:57:15PM -0700, Tony Dinh wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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! > > IIRC, Debian latest mainline kernel still expects ATAGS for most of > these boards (ones which they have installer for): > > n2350 ds116 dockstar dreamplug ds109 ds414 goflexhome > lschlv2 lsxhl nsa310s nsa325 openrd_base openrd_client openrd_ultimate > pogo_e02 pogo_v4 > > I think we should keep ATAGS around until the Linux kernel removes it.
Yes, sigh, if it's still in-use we need to keep it. Thanks. -- Tom
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