Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:05:20 +0100 | Subject | Re: remove arch/sh | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> |
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Hi Rob!
On 1/13/23 20:11, Rob Landley wrote: >> I actually would be willing to do it but I'm a bit hesitant as I'm not 100% >> sure my skills are sufficient. Maybe if someone can assist me? > > My skills aren't sufficient and I dunno how much time I have, but I can > certainly assist. I test sh4 regularlyish and it's in the list of architectures > I ship binaries and tiny VM images for, just refreshed tuesday: > > https://landley.net/toybox/downloads/binaries/0.8.9/ > https://landley.net/toybox/downloads/binaries/mkroot/0.8.9/ > > (The sh2eb isn't a VM, it's a physical board I have here...) > > There is definitely interest in this architecture. I'm aware Rich hasn't been > the most responsive maintainer. (I'm told he's on vacation with his family at > the moment, according to the text I got about this issue from the J-core > hardware guys in Japan.)
Well, maybe we can just give it a try together ...
> The main reason we haven't converted everything to device tree is we only have > access to test hardware for a subset of the boards. Pruning the list of > supported boards and converting the rest to device tree might make sense. We can > always add/convert boards back later...
There is a patch by Yoshinori Sato which adds device tree support to SH. Maybe we can revive it.
Adrian
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