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>
Commit 3839a74607 ("Documentation/features: Add kcov") and
commit 4641961cff ("Documentation/features: Add kmemleak") were added
shortly after the unicore32 port was removed in commit fb37409a01
("arch: remove unicore32 port"). Remove the unicore32 feature lines from
kcov and kmemleak as well.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707090922.4746-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Alan Kao
Arnd Bergmann
Tobias Klauser