linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture

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Message-Id: <1378388503.1985.7@driftwood>
Date:	Thu, 05 Sep 2013 08:41:43 -0500
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
	Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@...plusct.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture

On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS
> is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one
> of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last
> commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull request was early 2011.
> 
> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>
> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@...plusct.com>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
> ---
> More housekeeping.
> 
> Maybe this removal request is a bit early, but architecture support  
> seems
> to have vanished entirely. At the very least this puts interested  
> parties
> (if there are any) on notice.

I note that if qemu system emulation supports an obscurish platform,  
the rest of us can regression test it. If qemu doesn't support it, we  
can't.

(I'm looking at you, Hexagon.)

Rob--
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