Hi Thomas, On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 7:49 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbog...@alpha.franken.de> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer > > <tsbog...@alpha.franken.de> wrote: > > > I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using > > > TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for > > > it, it's time to remove it. > > > > I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every > > bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they > > appear. > > > > Is that sufficient to keep it? > > for me it is. But now we probaly need some reverts then...
Indeed. Fortunately not all of it, as some removals were TX4938-only. > I wonder whether you have seen my mail about the removal > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20201207105627.ga15...@alpha.franken.de > > and my call for people owning MIPS machines > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20200227144910.ga25...@alpha.franken.de/ Sorry, I'm not following the linux-mips list that closely, so I hadn't seen them. It's always a good idea to CC linux-kernel, and perhaps the few people who last touched the affected files. > Still "unclaimed" machines are > > IMG Pistachio SoC based boards (MACH_PISTACHIO( > Toshiba TX39 series based machines (MACH_TX39XX) > NEC VR4100 series based machines (MACH_VR41XX) > Netlogic XLR/XLS based systems (NLM_XLR_BOARD) > Netlogic XLP based systems (NLM_XLP_BOARD) > Sibyte BCM91120C-CRhine (SIBYTE_CRHINE) > Sibyte BCM91120x-Carmel (SIBYTE_CARMEL) > Sibyte BCM91125C-CRhone (SIBYTE_CRHONE) > Sibyte BCM91125E-Rhone (SIBYTE_RHONE) > Sibyte BCM91250C2-LittleSur (SIBYTE_LITTLESUR) > Sibyte BCM91250E-Sentosa (SIBYTE_SENTOSA) > > Is there something on this list you also regulary use ? No, I don't have anything from the list above. The RBTX4927 is basically my last MIPS-based system I do boot current kernels on. In active use, not for development: - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-X (Ralink-based). Stored in my attic: - NetGear WNDR4300 (AtherOS-based), - MikroTik Routerboard 150 (ADMtek-based, no (longer?) supported upstream), - NEC DDB VRC-5476 (upstream support removed 15 years ago ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
