Hi Arnd,
On 4/4/22 23:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 2:43 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
If there are no other objections, I'll just queue this up for 5.18 in
the asm-generic
tree along with the nds32 removal.
So it is the last day of te merge window and arch/h8300 is till there.
And checking nw the removal has also not made it to linux-next. Looks
like it is so stale that even the removal gets ignored :(
I was really hoping that someone else would at least comment.
I've queued it up now for 5.19.
Should we garbage-collect some of the other nommu platforms where
we're here? Some of them are just as stale:
1. xtensa nommu has does not compile in mainline and as far as I can
tell never did
(there was https://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa/tree/xtensa-5.6-esp32,
which
worked at some point, but I don't think there was enough interest
to get in merged)
2. arch/sh Hitachi/Renesas sh2 (non-j2) support appears to be in a similar state
to h8300, I don't think anyone would miss it
8<----- This may we where we want to draw the line ----
3. arch/sh j2 support was added in 2016 and doesn't see a lot of
changes, but I think
Rich still cares about it and wants to add J32 support (with MMU)
in the future
4. m68k Dragonball, Coldfire v2 and Coldfire v3 are just as obsolete as SH2 as
hardware is concerned, but Greg Ungerer keeps maintaining it, along with the
newer Coldfire v4 (with MMU)
I have no plans to stop maintaining ColdFire v2 and v3 (and v4), FWIW.
But we could consider the Dragonball support for removal. I keep it compiling,
but I don't use it and can't test that it actually works. Not sure that it
has been used for a very long time now. And I didn't even realize but its
serial driver (68328serial.c) was removed in 2015. No one seems too have
noticed and complained.
Regards
Greg
5. K210 was added in 2020. I assume you still want to keep it.
7. Arm32 has several Cortex-M based platforms that are mainly kept for
legacy users (in particular stm32) or educational value.
Arnd
