Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2024-02-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Sam, On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 20:21 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Assuming you agree with the patchset how do you want me to move forward? > I can rebase on top of the latest -rc and collect acks if that helps. > > Arnd promised to pick up the patches until you got a git tree up, > but I do not ex

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2024-02-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Andreas. Congratulation being the new sparc co-maintainer! On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:03:05PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote: > This is the second attempt to sunset sun4m and sun4d. > See [1] for the inital attempt. I have now verified that the kernel can boot with qemu. There was a b

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-22 Thread Andreas Larsson
On 2023-12-20 18:25, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Sam, On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 16:22 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: The leon3_generic machine is maintained by different people so I'd suggest contacting them: see [1] for their contact details. I see there is an avocado boot test for the leon3

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Sam, On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 16:22 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > The leon3_generic machine is maintained by different people so I'd suggest > > contacting them: see [1] for their contact details. I see there is an > > avocado boot test for the leon3_generic machine included within the QEMU > > s

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Mark, On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 11:30:27AM +, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 20/12/2023 10:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, at 09:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 08:36 +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > All of these were found through inspe

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread Kjetil Oftedal
On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 23:03, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote: > > This is the second attempt to sunset sun4m and sun4d. > See [1] for the inital attempt. > > The sun4m and sun4d parts of the kernel have seen no real interest > for several years now. Last time a few people surfaced, but it was > e

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 20/12/2023 10:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, at 09:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 08:36 +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: All of these were found through inspection rather than testing, so there is a good chance that other fatal kernel bugs prevent test

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, at 09:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 08:36 +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> All of these were found through inspection rather than testing, >> so there is a good chance that other fatal kernel bugs prevent >> testing in qemu, at least until the fixe

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 08:36 +, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > All of these were found through inspection rather than testing, > so there is a good chance that other fatal kernel bugs prevent > testing in qemu, at least until the fixes from Andreas' tree > are included. Andreas has fixes for these issu

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, at 09:34, David Laight wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann >> Sent: 20 December 2023 08:37 >> >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, at 22:03, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote: >> > TODO before this can be applied: >> > - Ack from davem - as he is the principal sparc maintainer >> > - Tested-by: p

RE: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread David Laight
From: Arnd Bergmann > Sent: 20 December 2023 08:37 > > On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, at 22:03, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote: > > TODO before this can be applied: > > - Ack from davem - as he is the principal sparc maintainer > > - Tested-by: preferably on a target or QEMU (see above) > > I expect bug

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, at 22:03, Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay wrote: > TODO before this can be applied: > - Ack from davem - as he is the principal sparc maintainer > - Tested-by: preferably on a target or QEMU (see above) > I expect bugs as there are some involved changes! > > Ideas for the future >

[PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

2023-12-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg via B4 Relay
This is the second attempt to sunset sun4m and sun4d. See [1] for the inital attempt. The sun4m and sun4d parts of the kernel have seen no real interest for several years now. Last time a few people surfaced, but it was either due to a personal project or for nostalgic reasons. It is time to let g