Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] writes:

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 1:15 AM, Florian Fainelli [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On 02/22/2018 07:45 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Add blackfin to that list, there have been no responses from the
maintainers last time I posted patches to remove DSA header files, so we
had to go these through the networking tree. Have not see a Blackfin
pull request since forever, Aaron himself seems to agree this should be
removed:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.1/04345.html

Peter Zijlstra also mentioned that one on IRC, I didn't have it on my radar
before. Like Tile, it has only recently been marked as Orphaned in MAINTAINERS,
so I'd be inclined to wait a little while to give possible users a
chance to step
up as new maintainers.

My plan for v4.17 is now:

- remove score, unicore and metag due to lack of toolchain
  or interest from the maintainers.
- keep hexagon, and try to build an llvm/clang toolchain
- remove frv and m32r due to being abandoned for several years
- mark tile and blackfin for pending removal later this year unless
  a new maintainer steps up
- mark mn10300 for pending removal unless it gets updated to
  support chips that were made in the past 12 years and to build
  properly.

My frustration says please please please remove blackfin with sugar on
top.   If you look at the new unified siginfo.h you will notice that
blackfin has the majority of conflicting si_code definitions.

Given that I have already dealt with the frustrating situations I can
wait a release or two.  But even though I found a cross compiler for
blackfin there is a real cost to keeping it in the tree.

Eric