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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Loongson: Remove Loongson-2E/2F support
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Huacai Chen wrote:

> Loongson-2E/2F is old, inactive and a bit ugly, so let's remove them
> and the world will be more comfortable.

 People still use them, e.g. I do, and upstream removal causes an issue
with the need to backport changes not specific to the platform.

 If you don't want to maintain the code, then just mark it orphan and rely 
on the community to maintain it.  If it starts breaking and nobody picks 
it to make fixes, then it can be removed.  There's no need to rush IMO.

 BTW, there used to be a patch somewhere to support more than 512MiB of 
DRAM with the 2E, but I can't find it -- can you help me tracking it down?

  Maciej