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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:21:46 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:02:36AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 6/25/19 10:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > arch/sh seems pretty much unmaintained these days.  The last time I got
> > any reply to sh patches from the list maintainers, and the last maintainer
> > pull request was over a year ago, and even that has been rather sporadic.
> > 
> > In the meantime we've not really seen any updates for new kernel features
> > and code seems to be bitrotting.
> 
> We're still using sh4 in Debian

I wouldn't call it "used": it has popcon of 1, and despite watching many
Debian channels, I don't recall hearing a word about sh4 in quite a while.

Hardware development is dead: we were promised modern silicon by j-core
after original patents expired, but after J2 nothing happened, there was
silence from their side, and now https://j-core.org is down.


Meow!
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