On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 07:52:08PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 02/21/2018 03:38 PM, James Hogan wrote: > > The earliest Meta architecture port of Linux I have a record of was an > > import of a Meta port of Linux v2.4.1 in February 2004, which was worked > > on significantly over the next few years by Graham Whaley, Will Newton, > > Matt Fleming, myself and others. > > > > Eventually the port was merged into mainline in v3.9 in March 2013, not > > long after Imagination Technologies bought MIPS Technologies and shifted > > its CPU focus over to the MIPS architecture. > > > > As a result, though the port was maintained for a while, kept on life > > support for a while longer, and useful for testing a few specific > > drivers for which I don't have ready access to the equivalent MIPS > > hardware, it is now essentially dead with no users. > > > > It is also stuck using an out-of-tree toolchain based on GCC 4.2.4 which > > is no longer maintained, now struggles to build modern kernels due to > > toolchain bugs, and doesn't itself build with a modern GCC. The latest > > buildroot port is still using an old uClibc snapshot which is no longer > > served, and the latest uClibc doesn't build with GCC 4.2.4. > > > > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the > > kernel. RIP Meta. > > > > Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/95906b76-6ce1-3f84-eaba-c29b4ae952eb@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: linux-metag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > FWIW: > > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks > > Did you drop the definition of CPUHP_AP_PERF_METAG_STARTING ? > I browsed through the patches but didn't find where it was dropped. Hmm, somehow that one slipped through my grepping. Thanks for pointing out. > > Also, how did you generate this patch, and can you try to apply it yourself ? > I tried to apply it, but neither git am nor patch worked for me. This patch > also doesn't show up on patchwork.kernel.org which is odd. I presume because I used -D to git format-patch, which is apparently only intended for human consumption (the full patch is 778K). I've pushed this version of the series here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag.git tag: metag_remove_v1 Cheers James
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