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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/16] arch: remove tile port
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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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