linux/arch
Alan Kao aec499c75c nds32: Remove the architecture
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>
2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
arc uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
arm Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
arm64 uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
csky uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
h8300 Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
hexagon uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
ia64 Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
m68k Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
microblaze uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
mips Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
nios2 uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
openrisc uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
parisc Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
powerpc Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
riscv uaccess: generalize access_ok() 2022-02-25 09:36:05 +01:00
s390 Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
sh sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
sparc Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
um uaccess: generalize access_ok() 2022-02-25 09:36:05 +01:00
x86 Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
xtensa Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
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Kconfig uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00