From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: Removing architectures without upstream gcc support Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:11:54 -0600 Message-ID: <877eqz1jv9.fsf@xmission.com> References: <2d12dc77-16b9-417d-72e3-2b1ffa38803d@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:26:57 +0100") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Florian Fainelli , linux-arch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Richard Kuo , "open list:QUALCOMM HEXAGON..." , Chen Liqin , Lennox Wu , Guan Xuetao , Guenter Roeck , Al Viro , James Hogan , "open list:METAG ARCHITECTURE" , Jonas Bonn , Stefan Kristiansson , Stafford Horne , openrisc@lists.librecores.org, David Howells , Peter Zijlstra List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org Arnd Bergmann writes: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 02/22/2018 07:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> Add blackfin to that list, there have been no responses from the >> maintainers last time I posted patches to remove DSA header files, so we >> had to go these through the networking tree. Have not see a Blackfin >> pull request since forever, Aaron himself seems to agree this should be >> removed: >> >> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/04345.html > > Peter Zijlstra also mentioned that one on IRC, I didn't have it on my radar > before. Like Tile, it has only recently been marked as Orphaned in MAINTAINERS, > so I'd be inclined to wait a little while to give possible users a > chance to step > up as new maintainers. > > My plan for v4.17 is now: > > - remove score, unicore and metag due to lack of toolchain > or interest from the maintainers. > - keep hexagon, and try to build an llvm/clang toolchain > - remove frv and m32r due to being abandoned for several years > - mark tile and blackfin for pending removal later this year unless > a new maintainer steps up > - mark mn10300 for pending removal unless it gets updated to > support chips that were made in the past 12 years and to build > properly. My frustration says please please please remove blackfin with sugar on top. If you look at the new unified siginfo.h you will notice that blackfin has the majority of conflicting si_code definitions. Given that I have already dealt with the frustrating situations I can wait a release or two. But even though I found a cross compiler for blackfin there is a real cost to keeping it in the tree. Eric From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:42676 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbeBZWMq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:12:46 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) References: <2d12dc77-16b9-417d-72e3-2b1ffa38803d@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:11:54 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:26:57 +0100") Message-ID: <877eqz1jv9.fsf@xmission.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: Removing architectures without upstream gcc support Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Florian Fainelli , linux-arch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Richard Kuo , "open list:QUALCOMM HEXAGON..." , Chen Liqin , Lennox Wu , Guan Xuetao , Guenter Roeck , Al Viro , James Hogan , "open list:METAG ARCHITECTURE" , Jonas Bonn , Stefan Kristiansson , Stafford Horne , openrisc@lists.librecores.org, David Howells , Peter Zijlstra Message-ID: <20180226221154.gcx0U1UJm3mEXmsFtWIL0SXSACPaOAyLMMj1JBNklKA@z> Arnd Bergmann writes: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> On 02/22/2018 07:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> Add blackfin to that list, there have been no responses from the >> maintainers last time I posted patches to remove DSA header files, so we >> had to go these through the networking tree. Have not see a Blackfin >> pull request since forever, Aaron himself seems to agree this should be >> removed: >> >> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/04345.html > > Peter Zijlstra also mentioned that one on IRC, I didn't have it on my radar > before. Like Tile, it has only recently been marked as Orphaned in MAINTAINERS, > so I'd be inclined to wait a little while to give possible users a > chance to step > up as new maintainers. > > My plan for v4.17 is now: > > - remove score, unicore and metag due to lack of toolchain > or interest from the maintainers. > - keep hexagon, and try to build an llvm/clang toolchain > - remove frv and m32r due to being abandoned for several years > - mark tile and blackfin for pending removal later this year unless > a new maintainer steps up > - mark mn10300 for pending removal unless it gets updated to > support chips that were made in the past 12 years and to build > properly. My frustration says please please please remove blackfin with sugar on top. If you look at the new unified siginfo.h you will notice that blackfin has the majority of conflicting si_code definitions. Given that I have already dealt with the frustrating situations I can wait a release or two. But even though I found a cross compiler for blackfin there is a real cost to keeping it in the tree. Eric