On 03/08/2018 04:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
I originally helped get tile, blackfin, metag, unicore32 and score into the kernel, and it's always sad to see them go away after all the work that was put into making them work. Out of the above, tile was probably the best supported, and the most ambitious architecture design, but in the end it seems it is just as dead as the others, so I'll now add a patch to remove it along with the others in linux-4.17.
Out of curiosity: Is there any reason why the removal of tilegx is now being rushed? Did any of the policies regarding architectures in the kernel change? I had the impression that architectures could previously stay unmaintained for a while before being removed.
- sh3/sh4 looked like they would get revived a few years ago for the j-core project. The 2015 roadmap on http://j-core.org/roadmap.html had ambitious plans for an sh3 compatible core in 2017 and an sh4 compatible one in 2018. However, not much has happened at all since 2016, and now the website is down as well. You might want to contact the j-core developers for clarification. I suspect this has also become a victim of the RISC-V success.
Well, that's quite a bummer. I don't know what Rich Felker's and Rob Landley's plans now are. Rich told that he would be doing paid SH work again in the upcoming weeks. I even sent him and Rob SH4 hardware to support their efforts. I have personally invested a lot of work into the SH port over the past three years in Debian and I was involved fixing many bugs and as a result, the port is quite usable. It would be really disappointing to see it being removed all of a sudden :(. I will get in touch with Rich and Rob to figure out what's going on. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
