On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 5:28 PM, James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Arnd, > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:45:06PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> * Meta was ImgTec's own architecture and they upstreamed the kernel >> port just before they acquired MIPS. Apparently Meta was abandoned >> shortly afterwards and disappeared from imgtec's website in 2014. >> The maintainer is still fixing bugs in the port, but I could not find >> any toolchain more recent than >> https://github.com/img-meta/metag-buildroot/tree/metag-core/toolchain/gcc/4.2.4 >> Not sure about this one, I'd be interested in more background >> from James Hogan, who probably has an opinion and might have >> newer toolchain sources. > > Interesting timing! Have you seen this (which I'll send for 4.17, and > leave 4.16 broken)? > > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151925667323732&w=2 No, I missed that. Could have saved me some of the research I did when coming up with the list ;-) > The Meta port is essentially unused and for a while I have only looked > at it when something went wrong. PURE's Linux based digital radios I > believe were never updated to 3.10. The fact that the GCC port wasn't > upstreamed before the MIPS acquisition meant it was always a ticking > time bomb (though binutils was upstreamed). > > Sad really, given that at least 9 years of effort went into the port > before permission was finally given to upstream it, and within a week or > so of the first patchset the intention to acquire MIPS was announced. Indeed. Arnd
