Re: [GIT PULL] C-SKY(csky) Port for Linux 4.20

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:27 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:26 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:45 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > One more general comment: I think this may well be the last new CPU
> > > architecture we ever add to the kernel. Both nds32 and c-sky are made
> > > by companies that also work on risc-v, and generally speaking risc-v
> > > seems to be killing off any of the minor licensable instruction set projects,
> > > just like ARM has mostly killed off the custom vendor-specific instruction
> > > sets already. If we add another architecture in the future, it may instead
> > > be something like the LLVM bitcode or WebAssembly, who knows?
> >
> > Kalray MPPA?
> >
>
> Ok, I stand corrected. I found the sources at [1], which look like they
> are getting ready for an initial submission.
>
>        Arnd
>
> [1] https://github.com/kalray/linux_coolidge/commits/kalray-v4.19-rc8

Cool, I didn't know they were that close ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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