linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 11:02:36 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?

Hi Christoph!

On 6/25/19 10:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> arch/sh seems pretty much unmaintained these days.  The last time I got
> any reply to sh patches from the list maintainers, and the last maintainer
> pull request was over a year ago, and even that has been rather sporadic.
> 
> In the meantime we've not really seen any updates for new kernel features
> and code seems to be bitrotting.

We're still using sh4 in Debian and most of the stuff works fine. There is
one patch by Michael Karcher that fixes a bug in the kprobes code that someone
should pull in as it unbreaks the kernel with kprobes enabled [1].

Yoshinori Sato is still active sporadically and has a kernel tree here
where he collects patches for -next [2].

Otherwise, the kernel works fine.

Adrian

> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-sh&m=156034655921917&w=2
> [2] https://osdn.net/projects/uclinux-h8/scm/git/linux/

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