linux/tools/testing
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
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cxl cxl/test: Mock acpi_table_parse_cedt() 2021-11-15 11:03:00 -08:00
fault-injection
ktest bootconfig/tracing/ktest: Update ktest example for boot-time tracing 2021-08-16 11:39:51 -04:00
kunit kunit: tool: Import missing importlib.abc 2022-01-25 12:59:43 -07:00
nvdimm memremap: remove support for external pgmap refcounts 2021-12-04 12:46:09 -08:00
radix-tree tools: Fix math.h breakage 2021-11-30 09:14:42 -08:00
scatterlist tools/testing/scatterlist: add missing defines 2022-01-30 09:56:58 +02:00
selftests nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
vsock vsock_diag_test: remove free_sock_stat() call in test_no_sockets 2021-10-15 17:21:34 -07:00