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 these look like they are no longer actively maintained or used, but I'm not 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
