nds32: Remove the architecture
authorAlan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
Wed, 2 Mar 2022 07:42:45 +0000 (15:42 +0800)
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 7 Mar 2022 12:54:59 +0000 (13:54 +0100)
commitaec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f
treeeadb9cd597d33c8c2f928dbd41e73b73f0b49398
parentdd865f090f0382ba9e74dc4fe1008c08a67a6fca
nds32: Remove the architecture

The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.

As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.

While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Documentation/features/perf/kprobes-event/arch-support.txt
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Documentation/features/sched/membarrier-sync-core/arch-support.txt
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Documentation/features/vm/huge-vmap/arch-support.txt
Documentation/features/vm/ioremap_prot/arch-support.txt
Documentation/features/vm/pte_special/arch-support.txt
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