Hi Alex, On 8/6/25 7:03 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > The vfio-fsl-mc driver has been orphaned since April 2024 after the > maintainer became unresponsive. More than a year later, the driver > has only received community maintenance. Let's take the next step > towards removal by marking it obsolete/deprecated. > > The vfio-platform and vfio-amba drivers have an active maintainer, > but even the maintainer has no ability to test these drivers anymore. > The hardware itself has become obsolete and despite Eric's efforts to > add support for new devices and presenting on the complexities of > trying to manage and support shared resources at KVM Forum 2024, the > state of the driver and ability to test it upstream has not advanced. > The experiment has been useful, but seems to be reaching a conclusion. > QEMU intends to remove vfio-platform support in the 10.2 release. > Mark these drivers as obsolete/deprecated in the kernel as well. for the whole series: Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Eric > > Thanks, > Alex > > Alex Williamson (2): > vfio/fsl-mc: Mark for removal > vfio/platform: Mark for removal > > MAINTAINERS | 4 ++-- > drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/Kconfig | 5 ++++- > drivers/vfio/fsl-mc/vfio_fsl_mc.c | 2 ++ > drivers/vfio/platform/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++-- > drivers/vfio/platform/reset/Kconfig | 6 +++--- > drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_amba.c | 2 ++ > drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform.c | 2 ++ > 7 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >
