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    SubjectRe: Old platforms: bring out your dead
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    On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >> Hi Arnd!
    >>
    >> (Please let's have this cross-posted for more visibility. I only learned about this
    >> while reading Phoronix news)
    >>
    >>> I also looked at non-ARM platforms while preparing for my article. Some of
    >>> these look like they are no longer actively maintained or used, but I'm not
    >>> doing anything about those unless the maintainers would like me to:
    >>>
    >
    >>> * sparc/sun4m: A patch for removing 32-bit Sun sparc support (not LEON)
    >>> is currently under review
    >>
    >> I don't think this has reached any agreement yet. Multiple people want it to stay.
    >
    > None of the people that replied have any real use of the sun4m port,
    > they only wanted it to stay because they had some machines or such.
    > In other words - people will be sad if we sunset sun4m, but it will not
    > hurt anyone as there are no users left.
    >
    > I will include the above summary when I post v2 of the patch to sunset
    > sun4m and sun4d. Then we will see what we conclude in the end.

    I used to regression test it in my cross builds but I switched my
    toolchains/userspace from uClibc to musl-libc a couple years back, and musl
    never added sparc support.

    Rob

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