nios2 and openrisc in barebox

[Antony Pavlov]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:13:44 +0100
Franck Jullien <franck.jullien at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le mar. 23 févr. 2021 à 10:59, Sascha Hauer <sha at pengutronix.de> a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Franck, Antony
> >
> > Are you still interested in barebox support for NIOS2 and openrisc? If
> > not I would consider removing it. Background is that we are planning to
> > introduce green threads and implement pollers with them which makes
> > green threads rather mandatory. Green threads need a setjmp/longjmp
> > implementation that would have to be added for these architectures.
> >
> > Keeping the architectures is no big deal normally, but I don't want to
> > add untested new functionality, also I don't want to implement things
> > that nobody uses, so if you are still interested it would be great if
> > you volunteer to implement setjmp/longjmp.
> >
> > Thanks
> >   Sascha
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for asking.
> 
> I don't think anyone is using (has ever used ?) Barebox on these architectures.
> 
> I do have a product which uses Barebox and a NIOS2 in the field.
> It's working for 10+ years already but will never be updated.
> 
> I think you can drop support for them. I won't work on this myself.
> Let's wait for Antony's view on this.

Hi!

I experimented with openrisc before widespread use of RISC-V.
I have never used nios2.

IMHO we can drop openrisc and nios2.

-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov