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Wed, 20 May 2026 03:07:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: AoFiOxpvQUXV Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 09:06:33 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com" , "Ethan Nelson-Moore" , "Wolfram Sang" Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" , "Dinh Nguyen" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, Linux-Arch , dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, Netdev , 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>, "Kees Cook" , "Oleg Nesterov" , "Will Deacon" , "Aneesh Kumar K.V (Arm)" , "Andrew Morton" , "Nicholas Piggin" , "Vinod Koul" , "Frank Li" , "Dave Penkler" , "Andi Shyti" , "Jonathan Cameron" , "David Lechner" , =?UTF-8?Q?Nuno_S=C3=A1?= , "Andy Shevchenko" , "Andrew Lunn" , "David S . Miller" , "Eric Dumazet" , "Jakub Kicinski" , "Paolo Abeni" , "Lorenzo Pieralisi" , =?UTF-8?Q?Krzysztof_Wilczy=C5=84ski?= , "Andreas Oetken" Message-Id: <76af64fa-7820-4d92-8aa9-826c3bd812a1@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260519103012.blot4bssgiqfer6p@dev-vm-schuster> References: <20260518042833.272221-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com> <20260518105735.GW3126523@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20260518172444.zyd47mcagrcwu7wt@dev-vm-schuster> <20260519103012.blot4bssgiqfer6p@dev-vm-schuster> Subject: Re: [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, May 19, 2026, at 12:30, Simon Schuster wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 05:13:58PM -0700, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: > > 2035 is still a rather tight timeframe for our typical support/phase-out > period (we would hope to get close to 2040 with the SLTS extensions), > which is also the reason for our targeted 'lifetime extension' for the > nios2 architecture for approximately 5 years, or more precisely ~2-3 > SLTS kernels assuming the usual cadence of 2 years between SLTS versions > (+ some safety margin). I think that is a reasonable target. We have a bunch of embedded architectures that have a similarly small user base and I expect that we will want to remove most of them at some point, as we did for seven architectures in linux-4.17. As long as there is a maintainer for nios2 and it's not actively getting in the way of a specific treewide change, I don't see any reason to remove this any earlier than the other ones. Obviously at some point nios2 will have to get removed because of the limit to gcc-14 or older, but that should not be a problem for the next few LTS releases. > Sure, I'd be glad to do so, but so far I refrained from it as I was a bit > unsure about the netiquette (can I simply do so by self-proclamation? At > least the git history seems to suggest so...). Dinh already replied that he welcomes the help, and I also suggested the same thing a year ago. As the only known user that has contributed patches in a long time, you are obviously qualified. Sending a patch for the MAINTAINERS file to Dinh is the first step, once he has sent that upstream, you can (optionally) apply for kernel.org account that would let you host a git tree on kernel.org or have a tree that you both have access to. Arnd