From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:21:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190625112146.GA9580@angband.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccfa78f3-35c2-1d26-98b5-b21a76b90e1e@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:02:36AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 6/25/19 10:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > arch/sh seems pretty much unmaintained these days. The last time I got
> > any reply to sh patches from the list maintainers, and the last maintainer
> > pull request was over a year ago, and even that has been rather sporadic.
> >
> > In the meantime we've not really seen any updates for new kernel features
> > and code seems to be bitrotting.
>
> We're still using sh4 in Debian
I wouldn't call it "used": it has popcon of 1, and despite watching many
Debian channels, I don't recall hearing a word about sh4 in quite a while.
Hardware development is dead: we were promised modern silicon by j-core
after original patents expired, but after J2 nothing happened, there was
silence from their side, and now https://j-core.org is down.
Meow!
--
⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Packager's rule #1: upstream _always_ screws something up. This
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ is true especially if you're packaging your own project.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-25 8:56 [RFC] remove arch/sh? Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 9:02 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-06-25 9:02 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-06-25 11:21 ` Adam Borowski [this message]
2019-06-25 11:21 ` Adam Borowski
2019-06-25 12:02 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-06-25 12:02 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-06-25 12:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 12:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 14:28 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 14:28 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 15:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-25 15:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-06-26 11:25 ` Yoshinori Sato
2019-06-26 11:25 ` Yoshinori Sato
2019-06-26 15:38 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-26 15:38 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-26 15:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-06-26 15:56 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-07-05 13:51 ` Yoshinori Sato
2019-07-05 13:51 ` Yoshinori Sato
2019-07-05 14:04 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-07-05 14:04 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-07-05 15:14 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-05 15:14 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 14:21 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 14:21 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-25 14:29 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 14:29 ` Rich Felker
2019-06-25 14:31 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2019-06-25 14:31 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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