Re: objective rules for architecture removal

2017-05-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Waldemar Brodkorb <w...@openadk.org> 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,

Re: objective rules for architecture removal

2017-05-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
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 anyt

objective rules for architecture removal

2017-05-18 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
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

objective rules for architecture removal

2017-05-18 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
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