Re: [RFC] remove support for AVR32 architecture

From: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 14:51:30 EST


Around Sun 05 Mar 2017 21:58:16 -0800 or thereabout, Håvard Skinnemoen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
> <egtvedt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have prepared three patches in my for-linus branch in git tree
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/linux-avr32.git
>
> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you for keeping it alive for so long!
>
> I looked through you tree superficially. There are a few references to
> AVR32 remaining. Most of them are for other subsystems, but you could
> consider picking up a couple of more for your patchset:
>
> include/uapi/linux/elf-em.h still defines EM_AVR32. This could be
> considered a part of the architecture code.

My git grep magic did not catch this.

> lib/Kconfig.debug has a list of architectures which want frame
> pointers. You could probably remove AVR32 from that list.

Same.

Will add a patch for these two.

> mm/Kconfig has a special case for AVR32 needing two quicklists.
>

This one I have in a different series, the one I planned to push to various
maintainers after the initial removal.

> If you were planning to patch each of those separately later, please
> ignore my comments.

Partly (-:

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mvh
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt