From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761739AbXG2LvR (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:51:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752160AbXG2LvG (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:51:06 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:47627 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752762AbXG2LvF (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:51:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:50:40 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: spyro@f2s.com, john@dnsworld.co.uk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk Subject: RFC: Remove the arm26 port Message-ID: <20070729115040.GD30976@stusta.de> References: <20070707201208.GJ3492@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070707201208.GJ3492@stusta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Considering the state of the arm26 port, I do hereby suggest to remove it from the Linx kernel since it's far from a usable state and doesn't seem to come back into a usable state. If anyone wants to work on getting this port back into a usable state in the forseeable future he should speak up now. cu Adrian On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:12:08PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I'm wondering what the status of the arm26 port in the kernel is: > > AFAIR gcc support for this architecture was deprecated in gcc 3.4 and > removed in gcc 4.0. This implies that either someone will have to re-add > support to gcc in the next 1-2 years or the kernel port will become > useless with the next increase of the minimum gcc requirement for the > kernel. > > The other point is that I tried to cross-compile an arm26 defconfig. > I gave up after running into several compile errors, and it doesn't seem > as if any recent kernel could be compiled. > > Is the arm26 kernel port already unused dead code or is some work for > getting it back into shape pending? > > cu > Adrian