[U-Boot] Remove sh2, sh3, sh4 architecture?

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon May 16 15:16:35 CEST 2016


Hi,

On 16 May 2016 at 00:18, Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2016 08:19:39 +0900,
> Simon Glass wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 18 October 2015 at 10:19, Masahiro Yamada
>> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>> > 2015-10-19 0:54 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
>> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:30:43AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> >>> 2015-10-18 21:19 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> >
>> >>> > It looks like these have no maintainer and have not been converted to
>> >>> > generic board. Should we remove the 'sh' architecture?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Regards,
>> >>> > Simon
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> The maintainer, Nobuhiro, was at the U-Boot mini summit,
>> >>> but, indeed, no work for SH these days.
>> >>>
>> >>> Since he left Renesas and went back to Hitachi,
>> >>> he is now a complete volunteer, I guess.
>> >>>
>> >>> If the maintainer responsibility is painful for him,
>> >>> he can take a step back, but I hope he can continue contribution...
>> >>> Nobuhiro?
>> >>
>> >> I'd hate to see SH2 leave since it's becoming the J-Core architecture..
>> >> Perhaps someone in the community would like to help out too?
>> >
>> > Agree.  Jeff talked about that at Dublin.
>> >
>>
>> I haven't seen any activity. Does anyone have an update?
>>
>
> I have converted code, but it can't be tested by a exsitance target.
>

Are you planning to send patches? We could still take them given that
the alternative is removal. Is there an emulator/qemu?

Regards,
Simon


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