Re: [patch 2/8] m68k: Reverse platform MMU logic so Sun 3 is last

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:13:41PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> Le mercredi 03 septembre 2008 à 10:36 +0300, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:15:44AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > > 
> > > Currently Sun 3 support is the first platform option, as the Sun 3 MMU is
> > > incompatible with standard Motorola MMUs. However, this means that
> > > `allmodconfig' enables support for Sun 3, and thus disables support for all
> > > other platforms.
> > >...
> > 
> > I hope it isn't too heretical to ask whether Sun 3 support actually has 
> > users and works?
> > 
> > Apollo support was broken for over 7 years without anyone noticing, and 
> > it might not be the only m68k platform that is long unused.
> > 
> > Do you have any overview of which m68k platforms still have users?
> 
> At least 4 users for amiga and 2 for mac :-P
> 
> #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files
> 42014 linux-image-2.6-amiga              4     0     0     0     4
> 53844 linux-image-2.6-mac                2     0     0     0     2
> 
> from http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst
> 
> I'm a mac m68k user (who is the other one ???)

Debian 3.1 (the last release to support m68k) supported
Amiga, Atari, Mac and VME.

These were also the most popular m68k platforms at about
10 years ago. [1]

But what about the rest?

As long as a platform has at one or more users it is worth keeping it,
but at least for Apollo it seems to be clear that noone ever used
kernel 2.4 or 2.6 on this platform.

> Laurent

cu
Adrian

[1] http://www.linux-m68k.org/Registry/Statistics.html

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