From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5E01DFD95 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=63.228.1.57 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1732302796; cv=none; b=D2raLSNx2eyv2nUEN0YfKsVLL3+e77x6wTItK2QXcmPHOZ6AnvxV68g1/9toH9/RcHjQR2E7QPmQARfAxbg75im8tN0mwlknP13VupAYJy1zmHcAJ2ffbuGRxTibIjIhOQon39G4OjVMQ/1HPDokv/OtZ8ji7xq6gdY7Q36zPKM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1732302796; c=relaxed/simple; bh=q6gz/bNnEPokdRWa7X1rhwL1CD+NrW+h58nfXlAVnGk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:Mime-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Fa7drV4cMVceWUW+uzJ4/RAVicSuMMQfNcMmWjOQ6r9B5KdkD1lFkuZ6QEuCRg4Qjq7ptXKC3dUKOtXAiqoIlWpq948IxsoTEGEP4vZQUF0+nu37He8nLaL4u1Y2BO1WYR9Dqp2GA0oTK8UMcj3/KqmwX23C3jwiHk7GxWr/5aE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.crashing.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kernel.crashing.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=63.228.1.57 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.crashing.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=kernel.crashing.org Received: from gate.crashing.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id 4AMIVs9W024111; Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:31:54 -0600 Received: (from segher@localhost) by gate.crashing.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id 4AMIVqd3024109; Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:31:52 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: gate.crashing.org: segher set sender to segher@kernel.crashing.org using -f Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:31:52 -0600 From: Segher Boessenkool To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, arnd@arndb.de, geert@linux-m68k.org, gerhard_pircher@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] powerpc/chrp: Remove CHRP support Message-ID: <20241122183152.GN29862@gate.crashing.org> References: <87bjydoz18.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> <20241121084136.3648581-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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: <20241121084136.3648581-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 09:41:36AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Pegasos2 users still exist, but admittedly they mainly use MorphOS and > >> AmigaOS4 on these machines. > > > > The Linux CHRP support is still present in v6.12, which will be an LTS > > for the next 2 years at least, so if there's folks who occasionally boot > > Linux they will still be able to do that for a while. > > Is there any urgency that warrants the removal? I could understand when ia64 > support was removed because it put a burden on maintainers. > > But CHRP support? It puts a burden on maintainers the same way. No one can really test it, to start with. It is essentially dead code. Or do you know someone who regularly builds and tests this? Segher