From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15879C433F5 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2022 05:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240373AbiDFE75 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2022 00:59:57 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53036 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1452874AbiDEWca (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2022 18:32:30 -0400 Received: from gateway24.websitewelcome.com (gateway24.websitewelcome.com [192.185.51.202]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F77A1BE85 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cm11.websitewelcome.com (cm11.websitewelcome.com [100.42.49.5]) by gateway24.websitewelcome.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478E8825DF for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 16:26:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 162-215-252-75.unifiedlayer.com ([208.91.199.152]) by cmsmtp with SMTP id bqhTnK58idx86bqhTnk49D; Tue, 05 Apr 2022 16:26:55 -0500 X-Authority-Reason: nr=8 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=roeck-us.net; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References :Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding :Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=etLRv605waIPx1DCrS1r2FtQdxwRWlTwRr0MCFi87mQ=; b=sDX58Fsb0AiIgrUpsTvhohwTrE XQ1vZUwbXi1u2XKNWkOabkdtvSY+nJsJnq0jEJWOR2pWup9lL6B1Mma1ENz8pF3G+ncnOQDMBWueO XHkI5kIBI84YfYzO74YAyKDyDKe2FjwoGqgSZffJ5D+JJXb2Jq5ETNOBfe4fmt1CjLYkwcQ+vhYYD Mp+MjiO2y0hQtXtTYWaQgBv5t2HUUiMwf4OS56xwETZ1BcjgDwyOR2rvANhkO7vmxLAVlqJQlomJS A1LWi97vunmvbWJ2N78LVU+fj8RDpGNVebNiU4xgOzx9rtMLQ/EktX2AhgIrfrya8pzpfhsWoBVtB klltifqw==; Received: from 108-223-40-66.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net ([108.223.40.66]:57870 helo=localhost) by bh-25.webhostbox.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1nbqhS-003NqP-K5; Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:26:54 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:26:53 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Yoshinori Sato , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch , "moderated list:H8/300 ARCHITECTURE" , "open list:TENSILICA XTENSA PORT (xtensa)" , Max Filippov , Linux-sh list , linux-m68k , Greg Ungerer , Damien Le Moal , linux-riscv Subject: Re: [RFC PULL] remove arch/h8300 Message-ID: <20220405212653.GA2482665@roeck-us.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 108.223.40.66 X-Source-L: No X-Exim-ID: 1nbqhS-003NqP-K5 X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: 108-223-40-66.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net (localhost) [108.223.40.66]:57870 X-Source-Auth: guenter@roeck-us.net X-Email-Count: 19 X-Source-Cap: cm9lY2s7YWN0aXZzdG07YmgtMjUud2ViaG9zdGJveC5uZXQ= X-Local-Domain: yes Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:07:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 2:43 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 09:19:16AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > If there are no other objections, I'll just queue this up for 5.18 in > > > the asm-generic > > > tree along with the nds32 removal. > > > > So it is the last day of te merge window and arch/h8300 is till there. > > And checking nw the removal has also not made it to linux-next. Looks > > like it is so stale that even the removal gets ignored :( > > I was really hoping that someone else would at least comment. > I've queued it up now for 5.19. > > Should we garbage-collect some of the other nommu platforms where > we're here? Some of them are just as stale: > > 1. xtensa nommu has does not compile in mainline and as far as I can > tell never did > (there was https://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa/tree/xtensa-5.6-esp32, > which > worked at some point, but I don't think there was enough interest > to get in merged) Hmm, I build and test nommu_kc705_defconfig in my test system. > > 2. arch/sh Hitachi/Renesas sh2 (non-j2) support appears to be in a similar state > to h8300, I don't think anyone would miss it > > 8<----- This may we where we want to draw the line ---- > > 3. arch/sh j2 support was added in 2016 and doesn't see a lot of > changes, but I think > Rich still cares about it and wants to add J32 support (with MMU) > in the future > > 4. m68k Dragonball, Coldfire v2 and Coldfire v3 are just as obsolete as SH2 as > hardware is concerned, but Greg Ungerer keeps maintaining it, along with the > newer Coldfire v4 (with MMU) > > 5. K210 was added in 2020. I assume you still want to keep it. > > 7. Arm32 has several Cortex-M based platforms that are mainly kept for > legacy users (in particular stm32) or educational value. > I do build and test mps2_defconfig with qemu's mps2-an385 emulation. I am not saying that those are actively used, and I don't mind dropping them, but they do still work. Guenter