linux-stable/tools/arch
Arnd Bergmann bb9d812643 arch: remove tile port
The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and
maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure
from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product
line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer
uses the Tile architecture.

There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the
Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels
with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There
have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both
projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future.

Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port
with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while
the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first.

Cc: Chris Metcalf <chris.d.metcalf@gmail.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview
Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-16 10:56:03 +01:00
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alpha/include tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf 2018-01-23 09:51:37 -03:00
arc/include/uapi/asm License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
arm/include tools headers: Synchronize KVM arch ABI headers 2017-11-28 14:31:01 -03:00
arm64/include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-08 13:32:44 -08:00
h8300/include License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
hexagon/include/uapi/asm License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license 2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
ia64/include License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
microblaze/include/uapi/asm License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
mips/include tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf 2018-01-23 09:51:37 -03:00
parisc/include/uapi/asm tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf 2018-01-23 09:51:37 -03:00
powerpc/include tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.16-rc1 2018-02-15 10:01:46 -03:00
s390/include Revert "tools include s390: Grab a copy of arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h" 2018-02-15 10:06:15 -03:00
sh/include License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
sparc/include tools include arch: Grab a copy of errno.h for arch's supported by perf 2018-01-23 09:51:37 -03:00
x86 tools/headers: Synchronize kernel ABI headers, v4.16-rc1 2018-02-15 10:01:46 -03:00
xtensa/include License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license 2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00