From: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
To: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Cc: Barebox List <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: nios2 and openrisc in barebox
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:44:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210224084421.GG5549@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210224100646.41d718b1801959a0b47e3f75@gmail.com>
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@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Le mar. 23 févr. 2021 à 10:59, Sascha Hauer <sha@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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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-23 9:59 Sascha Hauer
2021-02-23 13:13 ` Franck Jullien
2021-02-24 7:06 ` Antony Pavlov
2021-02-24 8:44 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2021-02-25 7:17 ` Yann Sionneau
2021-02-25 12:45 ` Stafford Horne
2021-02-25 13:02 ` Jules Maselbas
2021-02-25 15:33 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-25 17:39 ` Antony Pavlov
2021-02-25 21:12 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-01 11:05 ` Ahmad Fatoum
2021-03-01 11:17 ` Jules Maselbas
2021-03-01 12:18 ` Stafford Horne
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