From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F17C433DB for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8E522AAF for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728739AbhAKJ77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:59:59 -0500 Received: from elvis.franken.de ([193.175.24.41]:42348 "EHLO elvis.franken.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725897AbhAKJ76 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 04:59:58 -0500 Received: from uucp (helo=alpha) by elvis.franken.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1kytyc-0000DI-00; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:59:06 +0100 Received: by alpha.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9C599C0898; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:40:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:40:22 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Krzysztof Adamski , Oleksij Rempel , Baruch Siach , Russell King - ARM Linux , Daniel Tang , Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , Jamie Iles , Barry Song , Viresh Kumar , Linus Walleij , Jonas Jensen , Marc Gonzalez , Hartley Sweeten , Lubomir Rintel , Neil Armstrong , Shawn Guo , Alex Elder , Alexander Shiyan , Koen Vandeputte , Hans Ulli Kroll , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Wei Xu , Steven Rostedt , Yoshinori Sato , Mark Salter , Michael Ellerman , Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead Message-ID: <20210111094022.GA5691@alpha.franken.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 09:59:23AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 9:19 AM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:55 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > * MIPS R3000/TX39xx: 32-bit MIPS-II generation, mostly superseded by > > > 64-bit MIPS-III (R4000 and higher) starting in 1991. arch/mips still > > > supports these in DECstation and Toshiba Txx9, but it appears that most > > > of those machines are of the 64-bit kind. Later MIPS32 such as 4Kc and > > > later are rather different and widely used. > > > > I have a (32-bit) RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test > > every bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues > > when they appear. > > Right, I was specifically thinking of the MIPS-II/R3000 ones here, I know > there are users on multiple actively maintained MIPS-III platforms. Maciej still runs R3k based machines. Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]