[PATCH 2/7] ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Use ioremap() to map INTC2 registers

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Geert!

On 11/18/20 9:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> CC Adrian
> 
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:27 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:49 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:37 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:52 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>>>> Doh, and even Debian ports doesn't support armeb anymore, else it
>>>>> would just be a debootstrap away...
>>>>
>>>> Debian actually dropped all big-endian platforms other than s390
>>>> now, the last other one was mips32 (mips32el is still there for the
>>>> moment).
>>>
>>> I did mean "Debian Ports", which still supports a few more. But no
>>> armeb.
>>
>> Ok, got it. I guess the old armeb ports was never in Debian, and predated
>> the debian-ports system.
>>
>> Debian ports indeed still contain packages for big-endian m68k (obviously)
>> as well as hppa, powerpc, ppc64 (in addition to the official ppc64le) and
>> sparc64). I'm surprised nobody so far tried restarting the openrisc port,
>> which got dropped when it appeared the corresponding gcc port would not
>> be upstreamed.
> 
> I guess that is partly due to the limited availability of OpenRISC
> hardware?  I had it running on a DE0-NANO, but 32 MiB RAM and
> no Ethernet doesn't bring you far...

The Debian wiki has some information on armeb and OpenRISC:

> https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts
> https://wiki.debian.org/OpenRISC

Apparently, interest for armeb was lost after people realized the hardware
being used could run little-endian as well and OpenRISC apparently had
licensing issues.

Adrian

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