Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-03-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:38 AM, James Hogan wrote: > These patches remove the metag architecture and tightly dependent > drivers from the kernel. With the 4.16 kernel the ancient gcc 4.2.4 > based metag toolchain we have been using is hitting compiler bugs, so > now seems a good time to drop it

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-23 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:02 PM, James Hogan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:26:58AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:38 AM, James Hogan wrote: >> > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the >> > kernel. RIP Meta. >> >> Since I brought up the

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-23 Thread James Hogan
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:26:58AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:38 AM, James Hogan wrote: > > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the > > kernel. RIP Meta. > > Since I brought up the architecture removal independently, I could > pick this up

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-23 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:38 AM, James Hogan wrote: > These patches remove the metag architecture and tightly dependent > drivers from the kernel. With the 4.16 kernel the ancient gcc 4.2.4 > based metag toolchain we have been using is hitting compiler bugs, so > now seems a good time to drop it

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-22 Thread Graham Whaley
On 22 February 2018 at 09:48, James Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:26:54AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:38:12PM +, James Hogan wrote: >> > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the >> > kernel. RIP Meta. >> >> So long, and thank

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-22 Thread James Hogan
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:26:54AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:38:12PM +, James Hogan wrote: > > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the > > kernel. RIP Meta. > > So long, and thanks for all the fish! > > Nice cleanup though, most welco

Re: [PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-22 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:38:12PM +, James Hogan wrote: > So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the > kernel. RIP Meta. So long, and thanks for all the fish! Nice cleanup though, most welcome :-) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)

[PATCH 00/13] Remove metag architecture

2018-02-21 Thread James Hogan
These patches remove the metag architecture and tightly dependent drivers from the kernel. With the 4.16 kernel the ancient gcc 4.2.4 based metag toolchain we have been using is hitting compiler bugs, so now seems a good time to drop it altogether. Quoting from patch 1: The earliest Meta architec