netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:42:25 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de> wrote:
> On 03/15/2018 10:42 AM, David Howells wrote:
>> Do we have anything left that still implements NOMMU?
>>
> RISC-V ?
> (evil grin :-)

Is anyone producing a chip that includes enough of the Privileged ISA spec
to have things like system calls, but not the MMU parts?

I thought at least initially the kernel only supports hardware that has a rather
complete feature set.

       Arnd