Re: objective rules for architecture removal

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: > > are there any objective rules for removal of architecture support from > the Linux kernel tree? Objective rules for that in particular? No. We do have the whole "no regressions" rule, which covers pretty much anything except for bad s

objective rules for architecture removal

Hi Linus, are there any objective rules for removal of architecture support from the Linux kernel tree? I recognized this week that avr32 support was removed recently. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/1/694 The major reasons are: - end-of-life for hardware - no upstream gcc (very old) - no users