The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.
As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.
While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
RISCV_TIMER/CLINT_TIMER is required for RISC-V system, and it
provides sched_clock, which allow us to enable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING.
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
The unicore32 port do not seem maintained for a long time now, there is no
upstream toolchain that can create unicore32 binaries and all the links to
prebuilt toolchains for unicore32 are dead. Even compilers that were
available are not supported by the kernel anymore.
Guenter Roeck says:
I have stopped building unicore32 images since v4.19 since there is no
available compiler that is still supported by the kernel. I am surprised
that support for it has not been removed from the kernel.
Remove unicore32 port.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Now that the script 'features-refresh.sh' is available, uses this script
to refresh all the arch-support.txt files in place.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
A number of architecture ports are obsolete and getting dropped,
so we no longer want to track the respective features.
We already removed the lines for metag and mn10300, this does
the same edits for all the others.
For the remaining 21 architectures, this shows how many are known
to implement each given feature:
19 time/modern-timekeeping/arch-support.txt
19 time/clockevents/arch-support.txt
15 core/tracehook/arch-support.txt
14 core/generic-idle-thread/arch-support.txt
13 locking/lockdep/arch-support.txt
12 io/dma-api-debug/arch-support.txt
11 debug/kgdb/arch-support.txt
10 time/virt-cpuacct/arch-support.txt
9 debug/kretprobes/arch-support.txt
9 debug/kprobes/arch-support.txt
8 vm/THP/arch-support.txt
8 vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt
8 vm/numa-memblock/arch-support.txt
8 io/sg-chain/arch-support.txt
7 perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt
7 locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt
7 debug/gcov-profile-all/arch-support.txt
7 core/jump-labels/arch-support.txt
7 core/BPF-JIT/arch-support.txt
6 vm/ELF-ASLR/arch-support.txt
6 time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt
6 seccomp/seccomp-filter/arch-support.txt
6 debug/stackprotector/arch-support.txt
5 time/irq-time-acct/arch-support.txt
5 io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
5 debug/uprobes/arch-support.txt
4 vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt
4 time/arch-tick-broadcast/arch-support.txt
4 perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
4 perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
3 debug/KASAN/arch-support.txt
2 vm/PG_uncached/arch-support.txt
2 vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt
2 sched/numa-balancing/arch-support.txt
2 sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
2 locking/cmpxchg-local/arch-support.txt
2 debug/optprobes/arch-support.txt
2 debug/kprobes-on-ftrace/arch-support.txt
1 vm/TLB/arch-support.txt
1 locking/queued-spinlocks/arch-support.txt
1 locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt
1 debug/user-ret-profiler/arch-support.txt
0 lib/strncasecmp/arch-support.txt
Note that the list does not include riscv or nds32 yet, these still
need to be added.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Remove any remaining references to the Meta architecture in
Documentation/, primarily from Documentation/features/.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel,
hence remove all references to it from Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
arm64 relies on the arm_arch_timer for sched_clock, so we can select
HAVE_IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING and have the core sched-clock code enable the
feature at runtime based on the rate.
Reported-by: Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Alan Kao
Arnd Bergmann
Kefeng Wang
Mike Rapoport
Guo Ren
Andrea Parri
David Howells
James Hogan
Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
Will Deacon
Ingo Molnar