Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:55:06PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

After v5.10 was officially declared an LTS kernel, I had a look around
the Arm platforms that look like they have not seen any patches from
their maintainers or users that are actually running the hardware for
at least five years (2015 or earlier). I made some statistics and lists
for my lwn.net article last year [1], so I'd thought I'd share a summary
here for discussion about what we should remove. As I found three
years ago when I removed several CPU architectures, it makes sense
to do this in bulk, to simplify a scripted search for device drivers, header
files and Kconfig options that become unused in the process.

* m68k/{apollo,hp300,sun3,q40} these are all presumably dead and have not
   seen updates in many years (atari/amiga/mac and coldfire are very much
   alive)

me and a few other guys are still running m68k/q40. I did not compile
a new kernel for some time but will try.

Regards
Richard