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

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Date:   Fri, 5 Jun 2020 20:23:07 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sh: remove sh5 support

Hi Adrian,

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:58 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 6/5/20 5:59 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> >> Ah, sorry, I missed that. You're right, it should probably go through
> >> someone else's tree then.
> >
> > Do you know if it's needed to un-break sh4? If so we should push to
> > get whoever has jurisdiction over it to include it; otherwise I'm
> > indifferent.

I think the above is about the asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h patch?
https://marc.info/?l=linux-sh&m=158429470221261&w=2

That one falls under Arnd's jurisdiction.
And AFAIUC, it matters for recent binutils only? So Arnd should know.

> No, the patch is only necessary when enabling Infiniband support with
> CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS enabled.
>
> However, according to Geert, every architecture is supposed to have
> 64-bit get_user() these days, therefore my patch is required anyways,
> but it's not an acute problem.

This is about a different patch.  Still a build failure, but who cares about
Infiniband? (I still care more about SH ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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