From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 12:57:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260518105735.GW3126523@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d40b1e80-37fc-4c88-9d7f-dae6458efe6c@app.fastmail.com>
On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 11:29:48AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2026, at 06:28, 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!
>
> Hi Ethan,
>
> We last discussed this a year ago when Simon Schuster mentioned[1]
> that Siemens Energy is still using NIOS-2 in production and would
> prefer to have this still included in Linux for at least another
> few years until the obligation for kernel updates ends.
Isn't that what we have LTS branches for?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-18 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-18 4:28 [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-05-18 5:16 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-05-18 6:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2026-05-18 9:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-05-18 10:57 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2026-05-18 17:24 ` Simon Schuster
2026-05-18 20:46 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-05-19 0:13 ` Ethan Nelson-Moore
2026-05-19 10:30 ` Simon Schuster
2026-05-19 10:55 ` Wolfram Sang
2026-05-19 11:40 ` Dinh Nguyen
2026-05-19 11:07 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-05-18 12:50 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-05-18 15:29 ` Jonathan Cameron
2026-05-19 8:48 ` David Laight
2026-05-19 9:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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