On 4/7/22 09:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 11:25 PM Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm interested in H8300 because it's a tiny architecture (under 6k lines total, >> in 93 files) and thus a good way to see what a minimal Linux port looks like. If >> somebody would like to suggest a different one for that... > > Anything that is maintained is usually a better example, and it helps when the > code is not old enough to have accumulated a lot of historic baggage. But if it's not a lot of code, would it really accumulate a lot of cruft? If the code just works as is and doesn't need much attention to keep it working why not keep it? As long as the code doesn't break anything else what's the problem with keeping it? FWIW, the H8 backend in GCC was just recently modernized and improved and converted to MODE_CC. 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
