Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture

[Guenter Roeck]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 08:41:43AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS
> >is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one
> >of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last
> >commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull request was early 2011.
> >
> >Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >---
> >More housekeeping.
> >
> >Maybe this removal request is a bit early, but architecture
> >support seems
> >to have vanished entirely. At the very least this puts interested
> >parties
> >(if there are any) on notice.
> 
> I note that if qemu system emulation supports an obscurish platform,
> the rest of us can regression test it. If qemu doesn't support it,
> we can't.
> 
> (I'm looking at you, Hexagon.)
> 
At least they have a working compiler. It also helps if qemu runs with an
unpatched upstream kernel, which is unfortunately not always the case.

Guenter
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