Re: [PATCH 00/10] Remove support for TX49xx

Hi Thomas,

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 7:49 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:37:11AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I couldn't find any buyable product other than reference boards using
TX49xx CPUs. And since nobody showed interest in keeping support for
it, it's time to remove it.

I have an RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test every
bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues when they
appear.

Is that sufficient to keep it?

for me it is. But now we probaly need some reverts then...

Indeed. Fortunately not all of it, as some removals were TX4938-only.

I wonder whether you have seen my mail about the removal

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20201207105627.GA15866@alpha.franken.de (local)

and my call for people owning MIPS machines

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/20200227144910.GA25011@alpha.franken.de/ (local)

Sorry, I'm not following the linux-mips list that closely, so I hadn't
seen them.  It's always a good idea to CC linux-kernel, and perhaps the
few people who last touched the affected files.

Still "unclaimed" machines are

IMG Pistachio SoC based boards (MACH_PISTACHIO(
Toshiba TX39 series based machines (MACH_TX39XX)
NEC VR4100 series based machines (MACH_VR41XX)
Netlogic XLR/XLS based systems (NLM_XLR_BOARD)
Netlogic XLP based systems (NLM_XLP_BOARD)
Sibyte BCM91120C-CRhine (SIBYTE_CRHINE)
Sibyte BCM91120x-Carmel (SIBYTE_CARMEL)
Sibyte BCM91125C-CRhone (SIBYTE_CRHONE)
Sibyte BCM91125E-Rhone (SIBYTE_RHONE)
Sibyte BCM91250C2-LittleSur (SIBYTE_LITTLESUR)
Sibyte BCM91250E-Sentosa (SIBYTE_SENTOSA)

Is there something on this list you also regulary use ?

No, I don't have anything from the list above.
The RBTX4927 is basically my last MIPS-based system I do boot
current kernels on.

In active use, not for development:
  - Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-X (Ralink-based).

Stored in my attic:
  - NetGear WNDR4300 (AtherOS-based),
  - MikroTik Routerboard 150 (ADMtek-based, no (longer?) supported upstream),
  - NEC DDB VRC-5476 (upstream support removed 15 years ago ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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