From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Linus Walleij , Arnd Bergmann , Lukasz Majewski , Jonas Jensen References: From: Alexander Sverdlin Message-ID: <3764c777-61eb-857c-f5b8-71c96358a084@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:16:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Deprecation / Removal of old hardware support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.