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

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Message-ID: <e69b583d-0bed-3331-a82a-d41a3687d3c7@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:04:49 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?

On 7/5/19 3:51 PM, Yoshinori Sato wrote:
> I have SH2/2A/3 target board.

I've also got SH2/2A/3 boards ;).

> So can mantain CPU support.
> But with board support it will be difficult.
> I would like to make the transition to a common framework.

Yes, that would be great. I assume the basis will be device trees.

> I also have to fix the parts that depend on each board for migration,
> so I would like to limit the target for maintenance to only those
> that can be used now.

FWIW, could you open a pull request for Linus so that the SH fixes,
especially the kprobes fix, gets merged into Linus' tree?

Adrian

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