Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] sh: remove sh5 support | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Fri, 29 May 2020 00:32:07 +0200 |
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Hello Rich!
On 5/29/20 12:14 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > To follow up, I see that there was a patch series of yours (3/24) I > missed ack'ing fairly recently. At first glance it looks good. It > happened to arrive while I was getting over being horribly sick with > what I thought was covid19. If there's further action needed on it > I'll address it asap now that I'm aware of it.
Glad to hear from you again! I hope you have fully recovered!
> In general, most of the patches I see are things that the linux-sh > list and myself end up cc'd on that are only tangentially related to > arch/sh or even not related at all. In that case I normally trust > other maintainers familiar with the cross-arch changes being made that > the small arch/sh part of the change is ok if the broader change is > abstractly ok. > > Part of why I really disliked the "just kill it all" response to this > thread is that the sh5 removal is specifically for the sake of making > the arch more maintainable. That, along with forward-porting Sato's > SH4 device tree patches (I've tried this but ran into problems, and > need some help with it), has long been on my agenda for the arch, to > reduce (and ultimately eliminate) the amount of legacy "only on > arch/sh" stuff left so that it's not a burden on other maintainers and > contributors. Seeing sentiment along the lines of "why don't you just > remove it all while you're at it?" as a response is disheartening and > also dismissive of Arnd's work making the sh5 removal happen.
I agree. I have also poured endless hours into Debian's sh4 port fixing dozens of bugs myself and reporting them upstream whenever I couldn't fix them myself.
I would also like to add that getting device tree support into SH would be a huge leap forward and I would be happy to help with the efforts. I still have some LANDISK and NextVoD devices available if anyone needs hardware for testing and development, FWIW.
Would be great to also hear back from Sato-san, he is still active on his other Linux trees [1].
> Aside from that, the open source & open hardware J-core models are > still active and in development, with the latest release having been > made this month, and the J32 with MMU nearly complete and pending > release, contingent mostly on integration and testing with Linux.
And I'm still very much looking forward to these. I will certainly buy a bunch of J32 to use them as buildds for Debian's sh4 port!
Thanks, Adrian
> [1] https://osdn.net/projects/uclinux-h8/scm/git/linux/branches
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