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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>
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This change adds a number of missing headers in asm (fb.h, parport.h,
serial.h, and vga.h) using the minimal generic versions.
It also adds a number of missing interfaces that showed up as build
failures when trying to build various drivers not normally included in the
"tile" distribution: ioremap_wc(), memset_io(), io{read,write}{16,32}be(),
virt_to_bus(), bus_to_virt(), irq_canonicalize(), __pte(), __pgd(),
and __pmd(). I also added a cast in virt_to_page() since not all callers
pass a pointer.
I fixed <asm/stat.h> to properly include a __KERNEL__ guard for the
__ARCH_WANT_STAT64 symbol, and <asm/swab.h> to use __builtin_bswap32()
even for our 64-bit architecture, since the same code is produced.
I added an export for get_cycles(), since it's used in some modules.
And I made <arch/spr_def.h> properly include the __KERNEL__ guard,
even though it's not yet exported, since it likely will be soon.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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