On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Arnd!
(Please let's have this cross-posted for more visibility. I only learned about this
while reading Phoronix news)
I also looked at non-ARM platforms while preparing for my article. Some of
these look like they are no longer actively maintained or used, but I'm not
doing anything about those unless the maintainers would like me to:
* sparc/sun4m: A patch for removing 32-bit Sun sparc support (not LEON)
is currently under review
I don't think this has reached any agreement yet. Multiple people want it to stay.
None of the people that replied have any real use of the sun4m port,
they only wanted it to stay because they had some machines or such.
In other words - people will be sad if we sunset sun4m, but it will not
hurt anyone as there are no users left.
I will include the above summary when I post v2 of the patch to sunset
sun4m and sun4d. Then we will see what we conclude in the end.
I used to regression test it in my cross builds but I switched my
toolchains/userspace from uClibc to musl-libc a couple years back, and musl
never added sparc support.
Rob
