linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PULL] remove arch/h8300

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Date:   Tue, 5 Apr 2022 23:07:10 +1000
From:   Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        "moderated list:H8/300 ARCHITECTURE" 
        <uclinux-h8-devel@...ts.sourceforge.jp>,
        "open list:TENSILICA XTENSA PORT (xtensa)" 
        <linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org>, Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
        Linux-sh list <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PULL] remove arch/h8300

Hi Daniel,

On 5/4/22 13:23, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 22:42, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> But we could consider the Dragonball support for removal. I keep it compiling,
>> but I don't use it and can't test that it actually works. Not sure that it
>> has been used for a very long time now. And I didn't even realize but its
>> serial driver (68328serial.c) was removed in 2015. No one seems too have
>> noticed and complained.
> 
> I noticed this and I am working on fixing it up for a new Dragonball
> homebrew machine.
> I'm trying to add a 68000 machine to QEMU to make the development
> easier because I'm currently waiting an hour or more for a kernel to
> load over serial.
> It might be a few months.
> 
> It looked like 68328serial.c was removed because someone tried to
> clean it up and it was decided that no one was using it and it was
> best to delete it.
> My plan was to at some point send a series to fix up the issues with
> the Dragonball support, revert removing the serial driver and adding
> the patch that cleaned it up.

Nice. I will leave all the 68000/68328 code alone for now then.

Regards
Greg