Linux 4.17 Spring Cleaning To Drop Some Old CPU Architectures

[coder]

Hmmmm.....I thought Qualcomm's Hexagon was still a integral part of their SoC ?

Exactly.

I guess it's either an old architecture also sold under the Hexagon branding, or else they moved away from running (or never did run) a Linux kernel on that block. Usually, DSPs run some kind of RTOS or light-weight kernel.

[rene]

but, we love old architectures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5jPdQX5VY :-/

[rene]

It is great decision. i have always been fan of cleanng and optimising. I hope we can get smaller footprint and smaller/faster kernel.

does not change a bit for compiling your x86 kernel. no architectures or driver code affected at all.

[rene]

It matters for distros like Ubuntu that ship with every driver known to mankind and every default boot flag.

this is mostly architectural code, and all the arch specific drivers where not built at all.

[Royi]

Is there a planned clean and optimization to the Kernel we should feel?

[Azrael5]

it's time to drop all the cpus based on 32bit architecture.

[schmidtbag]

I'd like to think I'm decently aware of various CPU architectures, but aside from OpenRISC, I'm surprised I haven't heard of any of these.

[nuetzel]

it's time to drop all the cpus based on 32bit architecture.

Sorry, that would be a stupid decision (, now)!
Have you really be reminded of all the embedded and nice running little 'toys' out there...?
*kopfschüttel*

[torsionbar28]

it's time to drop all the cpus based on 32bit architecture.

If we want to be forward thinking, we should drop all architectures that are not Loongson. Everything else, ARM, x86, POWER, these are all obsolete. The one architecture to rule them all is Loongson.

[onokun]

If we want to be forward thinking, we should drop all architectures that are not Loongson. Everything else, ARM, x86, POWER, these are all obsolete. The one architecture to rule them all is Loongson.

Loongson is so 2008, should drop it too. There is no contemporary architecture for Linux, only obsolete ones.