11:37 <krzk> Notice: Samsung S3C24xx and S3C64xx (planned) deprecation and removal

11:38 <krzk> See: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-samsung-soc/52054093-bd8d-ee79-6f32-9ada9b3deb24@canonical.com/T/#t

11:38 <krzk> The platform is deprecated and scheduled in removal. Please reach to the maintainers of the platform and linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org if you still use it. Without such feedback, the platform will be removed after 2022.

14:53 <Grimler> (nitpicking) Seems an L fell away in channel topic change: "| inux Samsung SoC Exynos |"

15:49 <arnd> krzk: do you know when Samsung discontinued the non-phone embedded SoCs? It feels like this was 10 years ago already

15:54 <krzk> Grimler: thanks!

15:55 <krzk> arnd: no, I don't know. I also have never worked at the silicon division (LSI), so I was just a consumer of the SoC-products.

15:56 <krzk> arnd: Still around 2014-2015 Samsung used some of its Exynos chips in IoT products (Artik boards and module), later replaced with Nexell (which itself shares some similarities with Exynos...)

15:58 <krzk> arnd: and also since like 1-2 years Samsung made new designs customized for automotive, but indeed except this everything is targeted towards mobile

16:02 <arnd> krzk: as far as I can tell, the Exynos line was intended for phones, even though it may have been used elsewhere. There was definitely a break when the s3c line suddenly went from "supported with long term availability" to "we have no idea what this is"

16:03 <arnd> I didn't think the Nexell chips were related at all, except for being named similarly

16:03 <arnd> or maybe just the kernel code had a different lineage

16:06 <arnd> http://web.archive.org/web/20111206191527/http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/mobilesoc/Products_ApplicationProcessor.html lists s3c24xx in Dec 2011

16:06 <arnd> in 2012, it seems to all go 404

16:08 <arnd> http://web.archive.org/web/20121031152137/http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product/application/overview still has S5P6450 as the last non-Exynos product in 2012

16:40 <krzk> arnd: if you ask when they were manufactured - then it's the 2009, with the mentioned S5P6450 introduced in 2010. However I do not know what was the long-term availability.

16:43 <krzk> arnd: that's the archive/description http://web.archive.org/web/20140201210837/http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product/application/detail?productId=7606&iaId=835

16:44 <krzk> but I cannot find there any guarantees on production :/

16:54 <krzk> Additionally, even though S3C processors ended up in some industrial designs, still they were always described as "Mobile Processors" and were mostly used in smartphone products. I don't think that Samsung gave ever guaranteed availability.

16:54 <krzk> See also: http://web.archive.org/web/20110124232105/http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/support/brochures/downloads/systemlsi/psg_systemlsi_200708.pdf for list of all products back in 2007

17:43 <arnd> makes sense, so they probably didn't actually make any guarantees back then, it's just that their customers felt they should have gotten some advance warning