From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Chris Metcalf <metcalf@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/16] arch: remove tile port
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:12:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3GNHBbQpB23p1+b8L=Cg2gDkOz9h_EaWA22B+E+1ropA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f2e0cd4-02ca-0e01-7003-e519a7706ee4@alum.mit.edu>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:23 AM, Chris Metcalf <metcalf@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On 3/14/2018 10:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and
>> maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure
>> from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product
>> line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer
>> uses the Tile architecture.
>>
>> There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the
>> Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels
>> with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There
>> have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both
>> projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future.
>>
>> Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port
>> with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while
>> the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first.
>
>
> Arnd, thanks for dealing with this.
>
> There are a number of tile-specific driver files that are mostly called out
> in the MAINTAINERS file. I would expect you should also delete those.
>
>
> -F: drivers/char/tile-srom.c
> -F: drivers/edac/tile_edac.c
> -F: drivers/net/ethernet/tile/
> -F: drivers/rtc/rtc-tile.c
> -F: drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c
> -F: drivers/tty/serial/tilegx.c
> -F: drivers/usb/host/*-tilegx.c
> -F: include/linux/usb/tilegx.h
Right. I covered all of those in my follow-up driver series, see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/14/579
It's all in linux-next as of yesterday, but thanks for paying attention here.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-16 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-14 14:34 [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 01/16] mn10300: Remove the architecture Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 02/16] arch: remove frv port Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 03/16] arch: remove m32r port Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 04/16] arch: remove score port Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 05/16] arch: remove blackfin port Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 16:51 ` [PATCH] scripts/checkstack.pl: remove blackfin support Tobias Klauser
2018-03-14 17:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 22:24 ` [PATCH 05/16] arch: remove blackfin port Bryan Wu
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 06/16] arch: remove tile port Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-16 1:23 ` Chris Metcalf
2018-03-16 8:12 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-03-14 14:36 ` [PATCH 07/16] CRIS: Drop support for the CRIS port Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:39 ` [PATCH 10/16] mm: remove obsolete alloc_remap() Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:50 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-03-14 14:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:59 ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-03-14 14:43 ` [PATCH 11/16] treewide: simplify Kconfig dependencies for removed archs Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:43 ` [PATCH 12/16] asm-generic: siginfo: remove obsolete #ifdefs Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 16:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-14 20:31 ` Dominik Brodowski
2018-03-14 20:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 20:45 ` Dominik Brodowski
2018-03-15 10:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 10:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 11:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 12:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 18:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-03-15 12:54 ` [PATCH 11/16] treewide: simplify Kconfig dependencies for removed archs Kalle Valo
2018-03-19 23:06 ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-14 14:51 ` [PATCH 13/16] Documentation: arch-support: remove obsolete architectures Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:52 ` [PATCH 15/16] recordmcount.pl: drop blackin and tile support Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 20:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-14 14:53 ` [PATCH 16/16] ktest: remove obsolete architectures Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 20:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-03-14 20:38 ` [PATCH 14/16] asm-generic: clean up asm/unistd.h Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 9:42 ` [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures David Howells
2018-03-15 9:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-03-15 16:56 ` rfc: remove print_vma_addr ? (was Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures) Joe Perches
2018-03-15 17:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-15 17:13 ` Joe Perches
2018-03-15 9:56 ` [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-16 4:50 ` afzal mohammed
2018-03-15 9:59 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-03-15 10:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-20 17:11 ` Palmer Dabbelt
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