From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
To: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agqgrTBkVGBt_f28@ninjato> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260518042833.272221-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
On Sun, May 17, 2026 at 09:28:33PM -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> The Nios II architecture is a soft-core architecture developed by
> Altera (since acquired by Intel) and intended to run on their FPGAs.
>
> Licenses for the architecture have not been available for purchase
> since 2024 [1], and support for it has been removed from GCC 15 [2],
> Buildroot [3], and QEMU [4].
>
> Given all of these factors, it is time to remove Nios II support from
> the kernel. The maintainer stated in 2024 that they were planning to do
> so soon [5], but this did not come to pass.
>
> Remove Nios II support from the kernel and move the former maintainer
> to CREDITS. Thank you, Dinh Nguyen, for maintaining Nios II support!
>
> References:
> [1] https://docs.altera.com/v/u/docs/781327/is-discontinuing-ip-ordering-codes-listed-in-pdn2312-for-nios-ii-ip
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=e876acab6cdd84bb2b32c98fc69fb0ba29c81153
> [3] https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/commit/6775ccc5a199d574ad70b5f79ec58cce97a07c6f
> [4] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/6c3014858c4c0024dd0560f08a6eda0f92f658d6
> [5] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2024/021083.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> # for I2C
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-18 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-18 4:28 [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-05-18 5:16 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2026-05-18 6:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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