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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Krzysztof =?utf-8?Q?Wilczy=C5=84ski?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture Message-ID: References: <20260518042833.272221-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 Acked-by: Wolfram Sang # for I2C