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 1CDD8C433F5 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 15:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236553AbiDEPEJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:04:09 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37590 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1385694AbiDEOSr (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2022 10:18:47 -0400 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41B2A3135A; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 06:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF37A61868; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 13:07:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA18DC385A1; Tue, 5 Apr 2022 13:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5b7687d4-8ba5-ad79-8a74-33fc2496a3db@linux-m68k.org> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 23:07:10 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PULL] remove arch/h8300 Content-Language: en-US To: Daniel Palmer Cc: Arnd Bergmann , 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 , Damien Le Moal , linux-riscv References: <6a38e8b8-7ccc-afba-6826-cb6e4f92af83@linux-m68k.org> From: Greg Ungerer In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Hi Daniel, On 5/4/22 13:23, Daniel Palmer wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 22:42, Greg Ungerer wrote: >> But we could consider the Dragonball support for removal. I keep it compiling, >> but I don't use it and can't test that it actually works. Not sure that it >> has been used for a very long time now. And I didn't even realize but its >> serial driver (68328serial.c) was removed in 2015. No one seems too have >> noticed and complained. > > I noticed this and I am working on fixing it up for a new Dragonball > homebrew machine. > I'm trying to add a 68000 machine to QEMU to make the development > easier because I'm currently waiting an hour or more for a kernel to > load over serial. > It might be a few months. > > It looked like 68328serial.c was removed because someone tried to > clean it up and it was decided that no one was using it and it was > best to delete it. > My plan was to at some point send a series to fix up the issues with > the Dragonball support, revert removing the serial driver and adding > the patch that cleaned it up. Nice. I will leave all the 68000/68328 code alone for now then. Regards Greg