linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] powerpc/chrp: Remove CHRP support

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Message-Id: <20241121084136.3648581-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:41:36 +0100
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: mpe@...erman.id.au
Cc: arnd@...db.de,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org,
	gerhard_pircher@....net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] powerpc/chrp: Remove CHRP support

>> Pegasos2 users still exist, but admittedly they mainly use MorphOS and
>> AmigaOS4 on these machines.
>
> The Linux CHRP support is still present in v6.12, which will be an LTS
> for the next 2 years at least, so if there's folks who occasionally boot
> Linux they will still be able to do that for a while.

Is there any urgency that warrants the removal? I could understand when ia64
support was removed because it put a burden on maintainers.

But CHRP support?

Adrian

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