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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2018-03-09 16:13:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2018-03-16 12:56:03 +0300 |
| commit | bb9d812643d8a121df7d614a2b9c60193a92deb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 419096f57ca0501d8813151a5236387074edb4ea /arch/tile/kvm | |
| parent | 4ba66a9760722ccbb691b8f7116cad2f791cca7b (diff) | |
| download | linux-bb9d812643d8a121df7d614a2b9c60193a92deb0.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/tile/kvm/Kconfig | 39 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/tile/kvm/Kconfig deleted file mode 100644 index efce89a8473b..000000000000 --- a/arch/tile/kvm/Kconfig +++ /dev/null @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@ -# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 -# -# KVM configuration -# - -source "virt/kvm/Kconfig" - -menuconfig VIRTUALIZATION - bool "Virtualization" - ---help--- - Say Y here to get to see options for using your Linux host to run - other operating systems inside virtual machines (guests). - This option alone does not add any kernel code. - - If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and - disabled. - -if VIRTUALIZATION - -config KVM - tristate "Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support" - depends on HAVE_KVM && MODULES - select PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS - select ANON_INODES - select SRCU - ---help--- - Support hosting paravirtualized guest machines. - - This module provides access to the hardware capabilities through - a character device node named /dev/kvm. - - To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module - will be called kvm. - - If unsure, say N. - -source drivers/vhost/Kconfig - -endif # VIRTUALIZATION |