The chip family of TILEPro and TILE-Gx was developed by Tilera, which was eventually acquired by Mellanox. The tile architecture was added to the kernel in 2010 and first appeared in 2.6.36. Now at Mellanox we are developing new chips based on the ARM64 architecture; our last TILE-Gx chip (the Gx72) was released in 2013, and our customers using tile architecture products are not, as far as we know, looking to upgrade to newer kernel releases. In the absence of someone in the community stepping up to take over maintainership, this commit marks the architecture as orphaned.
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> --- This is my last week at Mellanox, and in the absence of customer engagements, it doesn't seem to make sense to transition the tile architecture maintainer role over to some other Mellanox employee. It would be great if someone in the community were interested in taking over! I'm also open to a community consensus suggesting that I just "git rm" the tile-related code instead of tagging it as orphaned, but my sense is that that's something the community can address later if no one steps up over a period of several releases to take over ownership. Note the Cc: tag on this commit; further kernel work (in particular the task-isolation patch series, which sprang out of some early Tilera work) will continue to come from that email address. MAINTAINERS | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 2d3d750b19c0..67cf1db6cde4 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -13458,10 +13458,8 @@ F: drivers/net/wireless/ti/ F: include/linux/wl12xx.h TILE ARCHITECTURE -M: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> W: http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/ -T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile.git -S: Supported +S: Orphan F: arch/tile/ F: drivers/char/tile-srom.c F: drivers/edac/tile_edac.c -- 2.1.2
