On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:07:06PM +0200, 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) Hmm, I build and test nommu_kc705_defconfig in my test system. > > 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) > > 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. > I do build and test mps2_defconfig with qemu's mps2-an385 emulation. I am not saying that those are actively used, and I don't mind dropping them, but they do still work. Guenter
