Hi Andreas, On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:15:21PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote: > This is the second attempt to sunset sun4m and sun4d. > See [1] for the inital attempt. > > The sun4m and sun4d parts of the kernel have seen no real interest > for several years now. Last time a few people surfaced, but it was > either due to a personal project or for nostalgic reasons. > It is time to let go and drop the parts of sparc32 that in reality > are not in use. > > LEON from Frontgrade Gaisler is the only real user of sparc32, > and this patchset reduces sparc32 to what is required by LEON. > > The defconfig is first adapted to the one used by Gaisler. > Then the patches removes sun4m and sun4d specific > implementations such as small drivers, SMP support, IRQ suppor etc. > > Removing sun4m and sun4d support allowed removal of the run time > patching of the code as well as a lot of assembler code. > The result is a much cleaner assembler code that is easier to > understand and thus maintain and extend. > > Changes in v2: > - Rebased on top of Andreas' for-next branch > - Collected ack's > - Added patch to remove cpuid patching (Andreas) > - Run-time testing using qemu (Andreas, Mark Cave-Ayland) Please let me know if you expect me to rebase this on for-next. I have not yet tried if there are merge conflicts but can take a look in a some days if required. That is assuming you agree with the sunset of the sun platforms... Sam
