The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.
As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.
While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
The unicore32 port do not seem maintained for a long time now, there is no
upstream toolchain that can create unicore32 binaries and all the links to
prebuilt toolchains for unicore32 are dead. Even compilers that were
available are not supported by the kernel anymore.
Guenter Roeck says:
I have stopped building unicore32 images since v4.19 since there is no
available compiler that is still supported by the kernel. I am surprised
that support for it has not been removed from the kernel.
Remove unicore32 port.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
I was manually editing the arch-support.txt for eBPF-JIT, when I
realized the refresh script [1] has not been run for a while. Let's
fix that, so that the entries are more up-to-date.
[1] Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh
Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200523191135.21889-1-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Commit 6077776b59 split 'HAVE_BPF_JIT' into cBPF and eBPF variant.
Adds arch support status files for the new variants, and removes the
status file corresponding to 'HAVE_BPT_JIT'. The new status matrices
were auto-generated using the script 'features-refresh.sh'.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
