linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] sh: remove sh5 support

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Date:   Thu, 28 May 2020 07:55:52 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp,
        dalias@...c.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sh: remove sh5 support

On 5/28/20 7:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [adding Linus]
> 
> On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 07:35:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Any progress on this?  I plan to resend the sh dma-mapping I've been
>> trying to get upstream for a year again, and they would conflict,
>> so I could look into rebasing them first.
> 
> So for years now it has been close to and in the end impossible to
> provoke sh maintainer action.  At the same point hardware is pretty much
> long gone for the real commercial variants, and never took off for the
> open hardware nommu variant.
> 
> Linus, would you ok with a 5.8 pull request to just kill off arch/sh/?

We're maintaining SH in Debian so I'm interested in keeping arch/sh, but
I'm also let down that SH maintainers aren't that active at the moment.

I do know that Yoshinori Sato has a tree where he takes patches and sends
PRs from time to time, but I have no idea what is going on.

Adrian

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