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Alan Kao aec499c75c nds32: Remove the architecture
The nds32 architecture, also known as AndeStar V3, is a custom 32-bit
RISC target designed by Andes Technologies. Support was added to the
kernel in 2016 as the replacement RISC-V based V5 processors were
already announced, and maintained by (current or former) Andes
employees.

As explained by Alan Kao, new customers are now all using RISC-V,
and all known nds32 users are already on longterm stable kernels
provided by Andes, with no development work going into mainline
support any more.

While the port is still in a reasonably good shape, it only gets
worse over time without active maintainers, so it seems best
to remove it before it becomes unusable. As always, if it turns
out that there are mainline users after all, and they volunteer
to maintain the port in the future, the removal can be reverted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/YhdWNLUhk+x9RAzU@yamatobi.andestech.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220302065213.82702-1-alankao@andestech.com/
Link: https://www.andestech.com/en/products-solutions/andestar-architecture/
Signed-off-by: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
[arnd: rewrite changelog to provide more background]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
arch nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
block block: bio-integrity: Advance seed correctly for larger interval sizes 2022-02-03 21:09:24 -07:00
certs certs: Fix build error when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY is empty 2022-01-23 00:08:44 +09:00
crypto lib/crypto: blake2s: avoid indirect calls to compression function for Clang CFI 2022-02-04 19:22:32 +01:00
Documentation nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
drivers nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
fs uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
include Merge branch 'set_fs-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic into asm-generic 2022-02-25 11:16:58 +01:00
init lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc() 2022-01-22 08:33:37 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem: do not sleep with a spin lock held 2022-02-04 09:25:05 -08:00
kernel uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
lib uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
net uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS 2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
scripts nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
security selinux/stable-5.17 PR 20220203 2022-02-03 16:44:12 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v5.17 2022-02-01 16:52:54 +01:00
tools nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
usr reiserfs_xattr.h: add linux/reiserfs_xattr.h to UAPI compile-test coverage 2022-02-17 09:09:38 +01:00
virt Two larger x86 series: 2022-01-28 19:00:26 +02:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Christian Brauner's email address 2022-02-01 11:21:31 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Removing Ohad from remoteproc/rpmsg maintenance 2021-12-08 10:09:40 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.17-rc3 2022-02-06 12:20:50 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.