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| author | Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com> | 2022-03-02 15:42:45 +0800 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +0100 |
| commit | aec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f (patch) | |
| tree | eadb9cd597d33c8c2f928dbd41e73b73f0b49398 /Documentation/features/vm | |
| parent | dd865f090f0382ba9e74dc4fe1008c08a67a6fca (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/features/vm')
7 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt index 2949c99fbb2f..73ec761f1e27 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | TODO | | microblaze: | TODO | | mips: | ok | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | ok | diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt index 6cde38458596..9066a90b38d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | TODO | | microblaze: | TODO | | mips: | TODO | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt index 7dbd6967b37e..f717ab792e5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/THP/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | .. | | microblaze: | .. | | mips: | ok | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | .. | | openrisc: | .. | | parisc: | TODO | diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/TLB/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/TLB/arch-support.txt index e1c3a4c4d107..6fa76a37f299 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/TLB/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/TLB/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | .. | | microblaze: | .. | | mips: | TODO | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | .. | | openrisc: | .. | | parisc: | TODO | diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt index bc53905a0306..6e1792ee37fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | TODO | | microblaze: | TODO | | mips: | TODO | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt index 9a0c8783b84d..a6dcbe5f47b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | TODO | | microblaze: | TODO | | mips: | ok | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | diff --git a/Documentation/features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt index 40b969f3a6bb..376477749c42 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ | m68k: | TODO | | microblaze: | TODO | | mips: | ok | - | nds32: | TODO | | nios2: | TODO | | openrisc: | TODO | | parisc: | TODO | |