Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/16] arch: remove tile port | From | Chris Metcalf <> | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:23:46 -0400 |
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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
Chris
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