On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:13:44 +0100 Franck Jullien <franck.jullien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le mar. 23 févr. 2021 à 10:59, Sascha Hauer <sha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > > Hi Franck, Antony > > > > Are you still interested in barebox support for NIOS2 and openrisc? If > > not I would consider removing it. Background is that we are planning to > > introduce green threads and implement pollers with them which makes > > green threads rather mandatory. Green threads need a setjmp/longjmp > > implementation that would have to be added for these architectures. > > > > Keeping the architectures is no big deal normally, but I don't want to > > add untested new functionality, also I don't want to implement things > > that nobody uses, so if you are still interested it would be great if > > you volunteer to implement setjmp/longjmp. > > > > Thanks > > Sascha > > > > Hi, > > Thanks for asking. > > I don't think anyone is using (has ever used ?) Barebox on these architectures. > > I do have a product which uses Barebox and a NIOS2 in the field. > It's working for 10+ years already but will never be updated. > > I think you can drop support for them. I won't work on this myself. > Let's wait for Antony's view on this. Hi! I experimented with openrisc before widespread use of RISC-V. I have never used nios2. IMHO we can drop openrisc and nios2. -- Best regards, Antony Pavlov _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
