From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
Sparc kernel list <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-sh list <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:09:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506e2355-0995-832a-1f9d-79b98a80ceff@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210110214653.GA1693373@ravnborg.org>
On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi all,
>> Hi Arnd!
>>
>> (Please let's have this cross-posted for more visibility. I only learned about this
>> while reading Phoronix news)
>>
>>> I also looked at non-ARM platforms while preparing for my article. Some of
>>> these look like they are no longer actively maintained or used, but I'm not
>>> doing anything about those unless the maintainers would like me to:
>>>
>
>>> * sparc/sun4m: A patch for removing 32-bit Sun sparc support (not LEON)
>>> is currently under review
>>
>> I don't think this has reached any agreement yet. Multiple people want it to stay.
>
> None of the people that replied have any real use of the sun4m port,
> they only wanted it to stay because they had some machines or such.
> In other words - people will be sad if we sunset sun4m, but it will not
> hurt anyone as there are no users left.
>
> I will include the above summary when I post v2 of the patch to sunset
> sun4m and sun4d. Then we will see what we conclude in the end.
I used to regression test it in my cross builds but I switched my
toolchains/userspace from uClibc to musl-libc a couple years back, and musl
never added sparc support.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-11 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 122+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 22:55 Old platforms: bring out your dead Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-08 23:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-01-09 22:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-08 23:44 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-01-09 0:16 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-09 17:32 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-01-09 21:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-09 5:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-01-09 21:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-10 6:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2021-01-10 10:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-11 9:50 ` David Laight
2021-01-13 10:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-13 12:02 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-13 12:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-13 12:21 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-15 0:03 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2021-01-15 0:24 ` William Breathitt Gray
2021-01-15 8:59 ` David Laight
2021-01-13 12:30 ` William Breathitt Gray
2021-01-13 12:56 ` William Breathitt Gray
2021-01-13 13:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-02-04 21:01 ` Pavel Machek
2021-02-05 9:13 ` David Laight
2021-02-05 9:29 ` Pavel Machek
2021-01-09 17:34 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-01-09 21:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-09 17:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-09 21:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 20:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-09 20:19 ` Baruch Siach
2021-01-09 21:19 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <67171E13-6786-4B44-A8C2-3302963B055F@gmail.com>
2021-01-09 22:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-10 18:12 ` Fabian Vogt
2021-01-10 19:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-10 21:33 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-11 0:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-11 12:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 12:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2021-01-09 23:12 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-01-10 8:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-10 16:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-01-10 17:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-10 19:51 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-01-10 15:51 ` Neil Armstrong
2021-01-10 15:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-10 17:35 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-10 21:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2021-01-11 8:05 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-11 14:55 ` chase rayfield
2021-01-12 0:26 ` Rob Landley
2021-01-12 0:50 ` chase rayfield
2021-01-12 14:37 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-11 18:09 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2021-01-11 15:04 ` Gerhard Pircher
2021-01-12 14:44 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-12 22:46 ` Linus Walleij
2021-01-13 8:09 ` Rob Landley
2021-01-13 8:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-13 13:25 ` Rob Landley
2021-01-13 12:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-13 8:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-13 10:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-14 3:54 ` New platforms: bring out your dead, was " Finn Thain
2021-01-14 9:41 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-14 9:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-14 21:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-14 22:54 ` Undesirable code, was Re: Old platforms etc Finn Thain
2021-01-14 23:09 ` Old platforms: bring out your dead Max Filippov
2021-01-15 8:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-13 0:12 ` Old platforms never die, was " Finn Thain
2021-01-16 6:54 ` Rob Landley
2021-01-16 23:22 ` Finn Thain
2021-01-13 11:47 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-11 1:39 ` Daniel Palmer
2021-01-11 9:15 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-11 9:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-11 9:26 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-11 9:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-11 9:50 ` Greg Ungerer
2021-01-11 9:42 ` Daniel Palmer
2021-01-11 10:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 8:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-11 8:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-11 10:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-11 10:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 9:40 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-01-11 10:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 8:40 ` efm32 is dead [Was: Old platforms: bring out your dead] Uwe Kleine-König
2021-01-11 11:10 ` Old platforms: bring out your dead Viresh Kumar
2021-01-11 19:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 21:15 ` Mattias Wallin
2021-01-11 21:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 13:13 ` Marc Gonzalez
2021-01-11 17:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2021-01-11 21:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-12 8:23 ` Marc Gonzalez
2021-01-11 14:22 ` Mark Salter
2021-01-11 15:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 14:44 ` Alexander Shiyan
2021-01-11 14:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 16:23 ` Sylvain Lemieux
2021-01-11 22:17 ` Alexandre Belloni
2021-01-11 19:58 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2021-01-11 20:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-11 20:25 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-01-12 8:41 ` Marc Gonzalez
2021-01-13 10:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-13 11:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-13 16:14 ` [v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-13 19:00 ` Krzysztof Hałasa
2021-01-14 8:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-15 7:08 ` Wei Xu
2021-01-15 9:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-15 11:09 ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2021-01-15 12:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-18 10:46 ` Wei Xu
2021-01-13 22:27 ` Richard Z
2021-02-05 13:37 ` Alexander Lobakin
2021-10-23 17:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-01-12 2:05 tedheadster
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