[RFC PULL] remove arch/h8300

Greg Ungerer gerg at linux-m68k.org
Tue Apr 5 06:07:10 PDT 2022


Hi Daniel,

On 5/4/22 13:23, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 22:42, Greg Ungerer <gerg at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> But we could consider the Dragonball support for removal. I keep it compiling,
>> but I don't use it and can't test that it actually works. Not sure that it
>> has been used for a very long time now. And I didn't even realize but its
>> serial driver (68328serial.c) was removed in 2015. No one seems too have
>> noticed and complained.
> 
> I noticed this and I am working on fixing it up for a new Dragonball
> homebrew machine.
> I'm trying to add a 68000 machine to QEMU to make the development
> easier because I'm currently waiting an hour or more for a kernel to
> load over serial.
> It might be a few months.
> 
> It looked like 68328serial.c was removed because someone tried to
> clean it up and it was decided that no one was using it and it was
> best to delete it.
> My plan was to at some point send a series to fix up the issues with
> the Dragonball support, revert removing the serial driver and adding
> the patch that cleaned it up.

Nice. I will leave all the 68000/68328 code alone for now then.

Regards
Greg




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