On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:06:46AM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote: > 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. Ok, thanks for your input. Let's go for it. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
