Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx

Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-01-06T18:50:01Z

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> CC Nemoto-san (de-facto TX49XX maintainer)
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> wrote:
> > I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using
> > TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for
> > it, it's time to remove it.
>
> I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every
> bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they
> appear.
>
> Is that sufficient to keep it?

for me it is. But now we probaly need some reverts then...

I wonder whether you have seen my mail about the removal

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20201207105627.GA15866@alpha.franken.de

and my call for people owning MIPS machines

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20200227144910.GA25011@alpha.franken.de/

Still "unclaimed" machines are

IMG Pistachio SoC based boards (MACH_PISTACHIO(
Toshiba TX39 series based machines (MACH_TX39XX)
NEC VR4100 series based machines (MACH_VR41XX)
Netlogic XLR/XLS based systems (NLM_XLR_BOARD)
Netlogic XLP based systems (NLM_XLP_BOARD)
Sibyte BCM91120C-CRhine (SIBYTE_CRHINE)
Sibyte BCM91120x-Carmel (SIBYTE_CARMEL)
Sibyte BCM91125C-CRhone (SIBYTE_CRHONE)
Sibyte BCM91125E-Rhone (SIBYTE_RHONE)
Sibyte BCM91250C2-LittleSur (SIBYTE_LITTLESUR)
Sibyte BCM91250E-Sentosa (SIBYTE_SENTOSA)

Is there something on this list you also regulary use ?

Thomas.

--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]