nios2 and openrisc in barebox

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:06:46AM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks for your input. Let's go for it.

Sascha

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