From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tomasz.figa@gmail.com (Tomasz Figa) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:52:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] ARM: remove fa526 CPU support In-Reply-To: <8978419.396TjzrzY0@flatron> References: <1363299178-8241-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de> <201303181116.17369.arnd@arndb.de> <8978419.396TjzrzY0@flatron> Message-ID: <1446859.f6dxOfhkOT@flatron> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 25 of March 2013 21:11:33 Tomasz Figa wrote: > On Monday 18 of March 2013 11:16:17 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Monday 18 March 2013, Jonas Jensen wrote: > > > On 15 March 2013 13:49, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > > Someone recently announced support for a Moxart SoC which seems to > > > > use the FA526 core however. > > > > > > That was probably me, and I understand people want it gone. Even > > > Debian wants v4:s gone because they're not strictly EABI ( > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/12/msg00044.html ). > > > > It's not that we want it gone, it si that we want unmaintained code > > to be removed. ARMv4 support is going to stay at least for a couple > > more years, probably longer given the number of ARM7TDMI and StrongARM > > systems still in use. > > > > There are probably no general purpose distros that will build for > > ARMv4 any more, but a lot of the embedded distros (OpenWRT, > > OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, ...) typically build all user space from > > source anyway, so there is no issue. > > > > > The port is not near mainline but I think I'd prefer if CPU_FA526 > > > wasn't removed. If someone stepped up to maintain ARCH_GEMINI (so I > > > could peek at the changes) that would be even better :) > > > > I've tried before to find someone who is still interested in Gemini, > > but it seems nobody has the hardware any more. > > I should still have a SquareOne SQ201 (Gemini-based NAS/router/WLAN AP) > somewhere. However I doubt that I will be able to find time to do > anything with it anytime soon, so I can give it to someone willing to > do something with Gemini platform in mainline. (I would prefer someone > from EU, though, as here in Poland the cost of sending anything outside > the EU is awfully high...). Already taken by Florian. Good that it will finally find some use after spending several years in a cabinet. Best regards, Tomasz