Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-11T08:21:22Z

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:55 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> * MIPS R3000/TX39xx: 32-bit MIPS-II generation, mostly superseded by
> 64-bit MIPS-III (R4000 and higher) starting in 1991. arch/mips still
> supports these in DECstation and Toshiba Txx9, but it appears that most
> of those machines are of the 64-bit kind. Later MIPS32 such as 4Kc and
> later are rather different and widely used.

I have a (32-bit) RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test
every bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues
when they appear.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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