From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73D5C48BD4 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9368D214DA for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730192AbfFYLV5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:21:57 -0400 Received: from tartarus.angband.pl ([54.37.238.230]:50050 "EHLO tartarus.angband.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727138AbfFYLV4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:21:56 -0400 Received: from kilobyte by tartarus.angband.pl with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hfjWE-0003Yy-Fc; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:21:46 +0200 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:21:46 +0200 From: Adam Borowski To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , Arnd Bergmann , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh? Message-ID: <20190625112146.GA9580@angband.pl> References: <20190625085616.GA32399@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Junkbait: aaron@angband.pl, zzyx@angband.pl User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: kilobyte@angband.pl X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on tartarus.angband.pl); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:02:36AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/25/19 10:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > arch/sh seems pretty much unmaintained these days. The last time I got > > any reply to sh patches from the list maintainers, and the last maintainer > > pull request was over a year ago, and even that has been rather sporadic. > > > > In the meantime we've not really seen any updates for new kernel features > > and code seems to be bitrotting. > > We're still using sh4 in Debian I wouldn't call it "used": it has popcon of 1, and despite watching many Debian channels, I don't recall hearing a word about sh4 in quite a while. Hardware development is dead: we were promised modern silicon by j-core after original patents expired, but after J2 nothing happened, there was silence from their side, and now https://j-core.org is down. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Packager's rule #1: upstream _always_ screws something up. This ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ is true especially if you're packaging your own project. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀