Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:55 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * MIPS R3000/TX39xx: 32-bit MIPS-II generation, mostly superseded by
>   64-bit MIPS-III (R4000 and higher) starting in 1991. arch/mips still
>   supports these in DECstation and Toshiba Txx9, but it appears that most
>   of those machines are of the 64-bit kind. Later MIPS32 such as 4Kc and
>   later are rather different and widely used.

I have a (32-bit) RBTX4927 development board in my board farm, boot-test
every bi-weekly renesas-drivers release on it, and fix kernel issues
when they appear.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds