[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Deprecation / Removal of old hardware support

[Alexander Sverdlin]

Hello!

On 11/09/2018 10:37, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Including Alexander Sverdlin, Lukasz Majewski  and Jonas
> Jensen here, they may or may not be able to share some of
> their industrial IoT experience. (Contract terms with vendors
> may make it necessary to stay silent sometimes.)

Yes, that's the reason I took the maintainer role for EP93xx.
I'm as well aware of several thousands of industrial devices which are
expected to run 24/7 for the next 5 years at least.
Linux firmware on them is still updated from time to time.

[...]

> ARMv4 is becoming a trouble, not that it is hard to maintain,
> actually we're on top of things there. The problem is that among
> the FA526 systems from Faraday and the ARMv4T in EP93xx
> there are very serious IoT deployments that have been going
> on for soon 15 years and continuing.

--
Alex.