Linux 5.9 Dropping The Unicore 32-bit RISC Architecture

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.9 Dropping The Unicore 32-bit RISC Architecture

It's arguably long overdue but with the just-opened Linux 5.9 kernel cycle the Unicore32 CPU architecture is being removed...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-Dropping-Unicore32

[szymon_g]

i'm sure both of its users are furious about it.

[Azrael5]

Excellent. It will be a great day when 32bit is dismissed to save time in programmation.

[rene]

somehow on phoenix everything is long overdue and obvious. Wondering why they are not an OS vendor or developer. Surely it would be the best plumbed OS of all times ;-)

[NateHubbard]

somehow on phoenix everything is long overdue and obvious. Wondering why they are not an OS vendor or developer. Surely it would be the best plumbed OS of all times ;-)

Removing support for architectures probably shouldn't ever be done until it becomes obvious.

[NateHubbard]

Excellent. It will be a great day when 32bit is dismissed to save time in programmation.

I feel like maybe you misunderstood what this was about.

[loganj]

i guess the hardware is not old enough

[starshipeleven]

I feel like maybe you misunderstood what this was about.

he always does. When he sees 32 bit he always assumes Desktop Linux.

[starshipeleven]

somehow on phoenix everything is long overdue and obvious. Wondering why they are not an OS vendor or developer. Surely it would be the best plumbed OS of all times ;-)

To be fair, I'm suprised that Torvalds didn't react very poorly and blocked the patches when someone told him that the only way to compile for this target is to use a binary toolchain provided by the manufacturer. That's some next-level bs.

[starshipeleven]

i guess the hardware is not old enough

I guess they are waiting for someone to rewrite it in Rust.