From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6AE153F076F; Mon, 18 May 2026 15:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779118183; cv=none; b=exknd1zBqcU6Ne6V/wzA1Go+FmSdZWGiw7CVS6AY780tlOqy8D16kyfjVg9KfGdB7JM1bWPZo9LumJ84yEWtjWUOKJnf50OqYhsneU7i5eEZWlK6PPFYkZONsoP4R07jOqS9WIQW2XMbqZlzQmzuUUSLdHVNYYAQQZ3AO8o4IrA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1779118183; c=relaxed/simple; bh=sG79W+MkJg5APZjQ0IZO8BppN8H3r5aAnNzI61jDF3c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=GpvCWr+J1D5vOwsL9P8R+ucqn97HHCe1Fdo4XbTDXNNbP6w0V+Bu5Baq8H9gBN9jiarB6R5zjhXTtd9ESTjr0rRzw8Hwh9UEuuwjeVq5Z7ffbQ+MetDLcovvw1xComT42x7SJEEmE9EE2GaC+AIH7ijGXJcomZH8XpifgKImJsY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=DwZqROts; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="DwZqROts" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 022C5C2BCB8; Mon, 18 May 2026 15:29:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1779118182; bh=sG79W+MkJg5APZjQ0IZO8BppN8H3r5aAnNzI61jDF3c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=DwZqROts39mMfmYdvXCT4HPiFfhe7pphuh2eDKH6Wk1FhbfIuLFoJAzIV1w6dNRkv gS8cb8Xmb9xkOCt1qVIvLGgvmZE6oe/kQRj9Y6tOcK3J7+SZnfUwT+d+1JQHBnsM7k y3T2EZLmM1+zyp9NgHNPRUHvt0LY1DRZbWBLEBpI5BZTxG52678vBTHhYBIh0DFCr2 oQc7xvwwanHA8iVLjTvBSa4aPqcGU3EOVTPRsiGop7Ajz+J42dwFVmK6swcGn2j3CX P6VUm6NFcP5DRUG3+5LkZrUBKtbe441Fuid0F7nbIj+YzyFabtEFqfwvMKgxkES4aO fEdY++PK5+AOg== Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 16:29:21 +0100 From: Jonathan Cameron To: Ethan Nelson-Moore Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Daniel Lezcano , Thomas Gleixner , Alex Shi , Yanteng Si , Dongliang Mu , Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>, Dinh Nguyen , Kees Cook , Oleg Nesterov , Will Deacon , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , Vinod Koul , Frank Li , Dave Penkler , Andi Shyti , David Lechner , Nuno =?UTF-8?B?U8Oh?= , Andy Shevchenko , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Krzysztof =?UTF-8?B?V2lsY3p5xYRza2k=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture Message-ID: <20260518162921.73e7c3aa@jic23-huawei> In-Reply-To: <20260518042833.272221-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> References: <20260518042833.272221-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.4.0 (GTK 3.24.52; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 17 May 2026 21:28:33 -0700 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! > > References: > [1] https://docs.altera.com/v/u/docs/781327/is-discontinuing-ip-ordering-codes-listed-in-pdn2312-for-nios-ii-ip > [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=e876acab6cdd84bb2b32c98fc69fb0ba29c81153 > [3] https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/commit/6775ccc5a199d574ad70b5f79ec58cce97a07c6f > [4] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/6c3014858c4c0024dd0560f08a6eda0f92f658d6 > [5] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/newlib/2024/021083.html > > Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore If it goes for IIO trivial changes. Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron