Re: [PATCH 01/13] metag: Remove arch/metag/

From: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] metag: Remove arch/metag/
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:24:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222072459.GA9891@saruman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea057277-fc48-3961-681d-385023741cdb@roeck-us.net>

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On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 07:52:08PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 02/21/2018 03:38 PM, James Hogan wrote:
> > The earliest Meta architecture port of Linux I have a record of was an
> > import of a Meta port of Linux v2.4.1 in February 2004, which was worked
> > on significantly over the next few years by Graham Whaley, Will Newton,
> > Matt Fleming, myself and others.
> > 
> > Eventually the port was merged into mainline in v3.9 in March 2013, not
> > long after Imagination Technologies bought MIPS Technologies and shifted
> > its CPU focus over to the MIPS architecture.
> > 
> > As a result, though the port was maintained for a while, kept on life
> > support for a while longer, and useful for testing a few specific
> > drivers for which I don't have ready access to the equivalent MIPS
> > hardware, it is now essentially dead with no users.
> > 
> > It is also stuck using an out-of-tree toolchain based on GCC 4.2.4 which
> > is no longer maintained, now struggles to build modern kernels due to
> > toolchain bugs, and doesn't itself build with a modern GCC. The latest
> > buildroot port is still using an old uClibc snapshot which is no longer
> > served, and the latest uClibc doesn't build with GCC 4.2.4.
> > 
> > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the
> > kernel. RIP Meta.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
> > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/95906b76-6ce1-3f84-eaba-c29b4ae952eb@roeck-us.net
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
> 
> FWIW:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Thanks

> 
> Did you drop the definition of CPUHP_AP_PERF_METAG_STARTING ?
> I browsed through the patches but didn't find where it was dropped.

Hmm, somehow that one slipped through my grepping. Thanks for pointing
out.

> 
> Also, how did you generate this patch, and can you try to apply it yourself ?
> I tried to apply it, but neither git am nor patch worked for me. This patch
> also doesn't show up on patchwork.kernel.org which is odd.

I presume because I used -D to git format-patch, which is apparently
only intended for human consumption (the full patch is 778K). I've
pushed this version of the series here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag.git
tag: metag_remove_v1

Cheers
James

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