From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>,
Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 09:13:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130905161313.GA19415@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378388503.1985.7@driftwood>
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 08:41:43AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS
> >is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one
> >of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last
> >commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull request was early 2011.
> >
> >Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
> >Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
> >Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> >---
> >More housekeeping.
> >
> >Maybe this removal request is a bit early, but architecture
> >support seems
> >to have vanished entirely. At the very least this puts interested
> >parties
> >(if there are any) on notice.
>
> I note that if qemu system emulation supports an obscurish platform,
> the rest of us can regression test it. If qemu doesn't support it,
> we can't.
>
> (I'm looking at you, Hexagon.)
>
At least they have a working compiler. It also helps if qemu runs with an
unpatched upstream kernel, which is unfortunately not always the case.
Guenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-31 2:00 Guenter Roeck
2013-08-31 18:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-08-31 19:40 ` Al Viro
2013-09-02 4:13 ` Lennox Wu
2013-09-02 5:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-02 15:18 ` Lennox Wu
2013-09-02 15:57 ` Al Viro
2013-09-02 17:29 ` Guenter Roeck
[not found] ` <CAFP0e=Gio_o6QFboVGe3aBCM0zFrsrJuNBthj63RXr+=SDPp7Q@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-03 15:26 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-04 4:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-05 13:41 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-05 16:13 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
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