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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jun 2020 20:23:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sh: remove sh5 support
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
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        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Hi Adrian,

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:58 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 6/5/20 5:59 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> >> Ah, sorry, I missed that. You're right, it should probably go through
> >> someone else's tree then.
> >
> > Do you know if it's needed to un-break sh4? If so we should push to
> > get whoever has jurisdiction over it to include it; otherwise I'm
> > indifferent.

I think the above is about the asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h patch?
https://marc.info/?l=linux-sh&m=158429470221261&w=2

That one falls under Arnd's jurisdiction.
And AFAIUC, it matters for recent binutils only? So Arnd should know.

> No, the patch is only necessary when enabling Infiniband support with
> CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS enabled.
>
> However, according to Geert, every architecture is supposed to have
> 64-bit get_user() these days, therefore my patch is required anyways,
> but it's not an acute problem.

This is about a different patch.  Still a build failure, but who cares about
Infiniband? (I still care more about SH ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds