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=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,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 03529C433E0 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:57:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC6C223C8 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2389836AbhAKR5a (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:57:30 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54160 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2389680AbhAKR53 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:57:29 -0500 Received: from mail-oi1-x22a.google.com (mail-oi1-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::22a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D6F1C06179F for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-oi1-x22a.google.com with SMTP id d203so248515oia.0 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:56:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=landley-net.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=g4x09ddCEuX5TXOxk4O97CruAZCK5rHe3BiW2J2QEao=; b=BWyliKl2BZ+fORedvFUhN2/ZerzWywwzawOKNlp8R8IAFdUKgcKLpEwzt86yK+Yaq0 vz5Y2/zV/cthheGqY9Dhc7sSKt9md4wPVuUjtPwfSuazVuwuq3sUfVjQSxtum+mX+aso ejDRycwm1fYam4OUiZJgH9Xd0kjPOS56dhGU3qmAQdUuGao5VyyU/j9ybLbnNyR7JoEr 3hm4w0Nz6Y0V98To7Mz8b5/xRIZsoOrJ9ogvheRWkNal2K7BVt30Bm5qd0/YylRglevu 2D8OLrsvPPfzIHUMIKQrUrX5RdtYRoHMBpEtgagZRB9fSAeAeYOaqr+o65w4hzoP9yXC 0R7w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g4x09ddCEuX5TXOxk4O97CruAZCK5rHe3BiW2J2QEao=; b=NZOuQ/wSauPjI3zh9VtPmryT4KXWuL/WAPV8M59cyhozuLcZupdQRw0xUi39W2GI4t Ez990MgOAqtVnolQs+o7gMSMyg6zxvwzZgsO3MGzNXRtuERBlDfapgmmvsd5NH82oKzA 8ee9lOqV39lzI287IrcaFDNb9AxwyE6vVhoE1GwgXLXhUVIC7pMWxiYuTZj4OGf/ZhKQ GanqSlkV1qnylA0/Ch34cHm8g9DUjk+c95L1iAvAOYWJhkauNdlGNAGfzIMUyYY1jiZW 6VHf3akcjMhaEcvFgF6a2WJ0VXE2NvdqPVriVzvn+M1BR2VB2Pd0gBsdiSQXde1a4lKA Qfqg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531UsckB2Qlf6YCHVBCqucu7QMYpoAC/kOIw7tyL2xr42FS6GdFh eo2YBpgSyapUMJP89QfhGbYpLA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJznaI7ZaYYbl3n2nOAnbExS2PY35/1NUhjmak9aco6aY0xYs+if6BZ85iCkEjsMcs+P6O8fHA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:8f0:: with SMTP id d16mr2525oic.47.1610387809040; Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.86.73] ([136.62.4.88]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t72sm91039oie.47.2021.01.11.09.56.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:56:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead To: Sam Ravnborg , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-m68k , Sparc kernel list , Linux-sh list References: <20210110214653.GA1693373@ravnborg.org> From: Rob Landley Message-ID: <506e2355-0995-832a-1f9d-79b98a80ceff@landley.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:09:13 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210110214653.GA1693373@ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi all, >> Hi Arnd! >> >> (Please let's have this cross-posted for more visibility. I only learned about this >> while reading Phoronix news) >> >>> I also looked at non-ARM platforms while preparing for my article. Some of >>> these look like they are no longer actively maintained or used, but I'm not >>> doing anything about those unless the maintainers would like me to: >>> > >>> * sparc/sun4m: A patch for removing 32-bit Sun sparc support (not LEON) >>> is currently under review >> >> I don't think this has reached any agreement yet. Multiple people want it to stay. > > None of the people that replied have any real use of the sun4m port, > they only wanted it to stay because they had some machines or such. > In other words - people will be sad if we sunset sun4m, but it will not > hurt anyone as there are no users left. > > I will include the above summary when I post v2 of the patch to sunset > sun4m and sun4d. Then we will see what we conclude in the end. I used to regression test it in my cross builds but I switched my toolchains/userspace from uClibc to musl-libc a couple years back, and musl never added sparc support. Rob