From e98ed9e06dbbde86a36238cfe6987deb2b8b6d38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Kao <alankao@andestech.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 15:42:45 +0800
Subject: nds32: Remove the architecture
Git-commit: aec499c75cf8e0b599be4d559e6922b613085f8f
Patch-mainline: v5.18-rc1
References: jsc#PED-1166 jsc#PED-1168 jsc#PED-1170 jsc#PED-1218 jsc#PED-1220 jsc#PED-1222 jsc#PED-1223 jsc#PED-1225
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>
Acked-by: Patrik Jakobsson <pjakobsson@suse.de>
---
drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
index fcc46380e7c9..40c50fa2dd70 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ config VGA_CONSOLE
bool "VGA text console" if EXPERT || !X86
depends on !4xx && !PPC_8xx && !SPARC && !M68K && !PARISC && !SUPERH && \
(!ARM || ARCH_FOOTBRIDGE || ARCH_INTEGRATOR || ARCH_NETWINDER) && \
- !ARM64 && !ARC && !MICROBLAZE && !OPENRISC && !NDS32 && !S390 && !UML
+ !ARM64 && !ARC && !MICROBLAZE && !OPENRISC && !S390 && !UML
default y
help
Saying Y here will allow you to use Linux in text mode through a
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