Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:26:38 +0100 | From | Jesper Nilsson <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] CRIS: Drop support for the CRIS-port |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 09:21:25PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:05 PM, Jesper Nilsson > <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> wrote: > > Hi Arnd, > > > > As promised, pull the below tag for the removal of the CRIS-port. > > There are still a few references to the CRIS port left, and they > > can be grouped into two categories: > > > > - Examples or references to the CRIS port as provenance. > > These I believe can be left as is. > > > > - The workarounds for CRIS not having "unpacked" structs. > > When I looked at it 10 years ago, CRIS was the only port > > that needed explicit alignment of some structs, > > due to pointers being valid at any byte offset in CRIS, > > which would wreak havoc with code that assumed that the > > lower bits of a pointer are free to use as flags. > > I'm leaving these in until we can say that no newer > > port has the same problem. > > > > Best regards, > > Hi Jesper, > > Thanks for the patch! I had done a slightly different approach, but > am merging your changes into my tree now. I already have separate > patches for each driver subsystem, so I'll keep my versions, having > already made sure that your changes were identical. > > For Documentation/features and the Kconfig files that have lists > of architectures, I also have separate patches that do the changes > for all architectures, to avoid touching those files (up to) eight times > for one trivial change each. I could redo those, but since your patch > conflicts with David Howell's patch for mn10300, it's easier to keep > what I already have. > > This leaves basically the removal of arch/cris along with the MAINTAINER > file update. I'm keeping the patch I did, but change the author and > changelog text to what you sent, with my Signed-off-by and a list > of my modifications) added below. > > Hope that works for you.
Yeah, no problem, and thanks.
> Arnd
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