From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753953AbdCBBCC (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:02:02 -0500 Received: from mail.free-electrons.com ([62.4.15.54]:57846 "EHLO mail.free-electrons.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753511AbdCBBBh (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:01:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 22:55:45 +0100 From: Boris Brezillon To: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Haavard Skinnemoen , Nicolas Ferre , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] remove support for AVR32 architecture Message-ID: <20170301225545.41211289@bbrezillon> In-Reply-To: <20170301204426.GA694@samfundet.no> References: <20170301204426.GA694@samfundet.no> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:44:26 +0100 Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt wrote: > Hello all, > > The AVR32 architecture is not keeping up with the development of the kernel, > and since it shares so much of the drivers with Atmel ARM SoC, it is starting > to hinder these drivers to develop swiftly. Thanks a lot for doing that. > > Also, all AVR32 AP7 SoC processors are end of lifed from Atmel (now > Microchip). > > Finally, the GCC toolchain is stuck at version 4.2.x, and has not received > any patches since the last release from Atmel; > 4.2.4-atmel.1.1.3.avr32linux.1. When building kernel v4.10, this toolchain is > no longer able to properly link the network stack. > > Haavard and I have came to the conclusion that we feel keeping AVR32 on life > support offers more obstacles for Atmel ARMs, than it gives joy to AVR32 > users. I also suspect there are very few AVR32 users left today, if anybody > at all. > > I have prepared three patches in my for-linus branch in git tree > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/linux-avr32.git Not sure it has any value since I'm not the maintainer of this platform, but Acked-by: Boris Brezillon