<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.
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<Grimler>
(nitpicking) Seems an L fell away in channel topic change: "| inux Samsung SoC Exynos |"
<arnd>
krzk: do you know when Samsung discontinued the non-phone embedded SoCs? It feels like this was 10 years ago already
<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.
<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...)
<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
<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"
<arnd>
I didn't think the Nexell chips were related at all, except for being named similarly
<arnd>
or maybe just the kernel code had a different lineage
<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.
<krzk>
but I cannot find there any guarantees on production :/
<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.
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<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
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