On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 11:29:48AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2026, at 06:28, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote: > > The Nios II architecture is a soft-core architecture developed by > > Altera (since acquired by Intel) and intended to run on their FPGAs. > > > > Licenses for the architecture have not been available for purchase > > since 2024 [1], and support for it has been removed from GCC 15 [2], > > Buildroot [3], and QEMU [4]. > > > > Given all of these factors, it is time to remove Nios II support from > > the kernel. The maintainer stated in 2024 that they were planning to do > > so soon [5], but this did not come to pass. > > > > Remove Nios II support from the kernel and move the former maintainer > > to CREDITS. Thank you, Dinh Nguyen, for maintaining Nios II support! > > Hi Ethan, > > We last discussed this a year ago when Simon Schuster mentioned[1] > that Siemens Energy is still using NIOS-2 in production and would > prefer to have this still included in Linux for at least another > few years until the obligation for kernel updates ends.
Isn't that what we have LTS branches for?
