| From | Richard Z <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 2021 23:27:57 +0100 | Subject | Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead |
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:55:06PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > After v5.10 was officially declared an LTS kernel, I had a look around > the Arm platforms that look like they have not seen any patches from > their maintainers or users that are actually running the hardware for > at least five years (2015 or earlier). I made some statistics and lists > for my lwn.net article last year [1], so I'd thought I'd share a summary > here for discussion about what we should remove. As I found three > years ago when I removed several CPU architectures, it makes sense > to do this in bulk, to simplify a scripted search for device drivers, header > files and Kconfig options that become unused in the process. >
> * m68k/{apollo,hp300,sun3,q40} these are all presumably dead and have not > seen updates in many years (atari/amiga/mac and coldfire are very much > alive)
me and a few other guys are still running m68k/q40. I did not compile a new kernel for some time but will try.
Regards Richard [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |