From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752620AbeBVHZZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:25:25 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:55654 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751755AbeBVHZY (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:25:24 -0500 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org AD65A21747 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=jhogan@kernel.org Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:24:59 +0000 From: James Hogan To: Guenter Roeck Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] metag: Remove arch/metag/ Message-ID: <20180222072459.GA9891@saruman> References: <20180221233825.10024-1-jhogan@kernel.org> <20180221233825.10024-2-jhogan@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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 is no longer maintained, now struggles to build modern kernels due to 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. > >=20 > > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the > > kernel. RIP Meta. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: James Hogan > > Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/95906b76-6ce1-3f84-eaba-c29b4ae952eb@ro= eck-us.net > > Cc: Guenter Roeck > > Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org >=20 > FWIW: >=20 > Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Thanks >=20 > 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. >=20 > Also, how did you generate this patch, and can you try to apply it yourse= lf ? > I tried to apply it, but neither git am nor patch worked for me. This pat= ch > 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 --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEd80NauSabkiESfLYbAtpk944dnoFAlqOcEoACgkQbAtpk944 dnr7dQ/9HkoCi/T27DeSY/sJA9zikIw0eZryOTNVlcIRN8oVjDAt0ozVw9TixWzk JvMq0sMQl8X4wX8OzRaJTRfEScGNHdsiw2jawu6YS3RCiNx1R70p/mN3p/f2Gy+z teZimLeh07hTUd5q8N5C9MnQdtKokdI1b4EgxxYEgvlq5q8AbgN/Amle6bMFv4yH /2GxiMKRQhrHQ5NtwzRYCI/ilOaaGcYCJ6uyHiyApaeij2N45XWjTeYsKxa8exDD LsWbToc/Pvr9uIk1mZDRS3XZfHgOdICOu1OEzBS9vUFMGVYONY+55J3TWtg2E/d9 Ys4gOl1pGWo9wf6ht0fuCHHX3E6nbmZJG83bFp3PNJhda68qbJx2aQ3CwReOQuPT 2VPMUdIcC4KOsyvvS4PwPqkq0N/U2h38x8aUGGRodWKuLeYYrL2oF68YqlDykIMw J7y6wuzs/R37ZsDD80gKmW7NMZxFIGCOvXYK7Wm49NvoZe9b3sTrK4DuDrmWp4eD v7161YTS9aGCZ66SKsAMfOqtceyBuj/UoWNXFe2JUyFIpoBxOXuCnXR/xILUqNo/ MhfaZAw2tp/DS5qFWn2V7xzlYg9nI+QMxu1/7BOF23+Zqafo3tOxtFoG7OOUI3CI Fcfg5PgReHbegBfehWGvlhBIyQdlFkCkfBt9sJvxcnT4oqZIpuY= =8mmR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR--