> Regarding the older architectures I mentioned (m32r, frv, mn10300), > the situation is a bit different as they don't have the problems with > build testing but they do have problems with using less of the > standard interfaces (syscall, timer, gpio, rtc, ...), so they do add > more to the maintenance burden without the nostalgia value of > some of the even older architectures (parisc, alpha, m68k, ia64) > that people maintain mainly for fun. IMHO the magic word is 'maintain'. If someone is actively maintaining it then I don't think we should care too much, if not then while the code may be buildable on current systems does anyone honestly think it works properly if used in anger ? Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-metag" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html