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From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>,
	Jonas Jensen <jonas.jensen@gmail.com>
Cc: Ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Deprecation / Removal of old hardware support
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:16:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3764c777-61eb-857c-f5b8-71c96358a084@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdYi66Lgq7OAGchQyfqEUUGVKV9m3YzL6t_nS+Hm0G2rRg@mail.gmail.com>

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.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-11 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-10 14:04 Peter Huewe
2018-09-10 15:31 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-10 21:40   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-10 22:02     ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-11  8:49       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-11 17:27         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-11 17:58           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-11 18:27             ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-11 18:37               ` Daniel Vetter
2018-09-11  8:37     ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-11  9:37       ` Lukasz Majewski
2018-09-11 19:33         ` Greg KH
2018-09-11 21:39           ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-11 21:50             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-12  6:40               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-09-12 10:23                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12  6:26             ` Greg KH
2018-09-12  6:49               ` Peter Huewe
2018-09-12  7:07                 ` Greg KH
2018-09-11 10:52       ` Mark Brown
2018-09-11 11:22         ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]           ` <TY2PR0101MB2526376DEFC241B754A19A6AE21C0@TY2PR0101MB2526.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2018-09-27 15:25             ` SZ Lin (林上智)
2018-09-28 10:45               ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-11 11:53       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-11 21:28         ` Alexander Sverdlin
2018-09-11 21:16       ` Alexander Sverdlin [this message]

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