On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 03:43:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Regarding the older architectures I mentioned (m32r, frv, mn10300), > > the situation is a bit different as they don't have the problems with > > build testing but they do have problems with using less of the > > standard interfaces (syscall, timer, gpio, rtc, ...), so they do add > > more to the maintenance burden without the nostalgia value of > > some of the even older architectures (parisc, alpha, m68k, ia64) > > that people maintain mainly for fun. > > IMHO the magic word is 'maintain'. If someone is actively maintaining it > then I don't think we should care too much, if not then while the code > may be buildable on current systems does anyone honestly think it works > properly if used in anger ? > FWIW, alpha and m68k are known boot with qemu (even though m68k generates a warning traceback with the mainline kernel). Guenter
