Hi Varun,

For Arm reference platforms, we are not sure who all are using it. That is why i proposed to keep in repo for around a year before deleting it.
But for NV platforms, if you are sure that nobody is going to require it, you can delete it earlier.

Also, instead of proposed step 2 earlier we can have an alternate
-  2. Don't allow it to be built by default. (introducing PLATFORM_DEPRECATED build macro)
+ 2. Instead of purposefully failing the build we can print a warning message (It's also quite possible that someday during cooling off period it stops to build naturally)

thanks
Manish
From: Varun Wadekar <vwadekar@nvidia.com>
Sent: 11 March 2021 02:35
To: Manish Pandey2 <Manish.Pandey2@arm.com>
Cc: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org <tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org>
Subject: RE: Deprecating Arm's sgm775 platform
 

Hi Manish,

 

Just curious, what would be the reason to keep the platform alive for 2 release cycles? I have one Tegra platform that needs to be deprecated and so would like to understand the thought process.

 

-Varun

 

From: TF-A <tf-a-bounces@lists.trustedfirmware.org> On Behalf Of Manish Pandey2 via TF-A
Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:01 PM
To: tf-a@lists.trustedfirmware.org
Subject: [TF-A] Deprecating Arm's sgm775 platform

 

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Hi,

 

The purpose of the email is to notify about deprecation of sgm775 platform and proposed process for deprecating a platform.

 

Arm's System Guidance for Mobile(SGM-775) is an old platform and no longer maintained. It is superseded by Total Compute(tc0) platform.

 

Proposal for deprecating a platform:

1. Keep the code in repository. (at least for 2 release cycles)

2. Don't allow it to be built by default. (introducing PLATFORM_DEPRECATED build macro)

3. Disable CI testing.

4. Create appropriate documentation for deprecated platforms.

 

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

 

Thanks

Manish P