On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Michal Simek <mon...@monstr.eu> wrote: > On 7.3.2018 15:09, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Sergey Senozhatsky >> <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If we remove cris, it's probably also appropriate to ask the question >> about microblaze: Michal, I know your work on microblaze linux has >> been winding down over the years as the user base shrinks (just >> like for all others above). Should we keep it for a few more years for >> the remaining users, or is it time to let go? I would guess we still >> have active users on modern kernels, but that's what I thought >> about cris as well ;-) > > It is not like that. I definitely have less time for Microblaze to > develop new stuff but Microblaze HW is still regularly updated and new > hw features are coming there and new versions are created. We are also > updating and testing newer kernels and using latest kernel at Xilinx. It > is definitely not in state that we should just remove it. > > There are still a lot of users which are happy with current state and > there is no pressure to add new features like SMP/address extension/etc > that's why there is no huge development in arch/microblaze. Ok, glad to hear that, thanks a lot for the clarification. Arnd