16 Mar, 2018
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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
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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
02 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
23 Jul, 2016
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The objtool build fails in a cross-compiled environment on a non-x86
host with "ARCH=x86_64":tools/objtool/objtool-in.o: In function `decode_instructions':
tools/objtool/builtin-check.c:276: undefined reference to `arch_decode_instruction'We could override the ARCH environment variable and change it back to
x86, similar to what the objtool Makefile was doing before; but it's
tricky to override environment variables consistently.Instead, take a similar approach used by the Linux top-level Makefile
and introduce a SRCARCH Makefile variable which evaluates to "x86" when
ARCH is either "x86_64" or "x86".Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160722191920.ej62fnspnqurbaa7@treble
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo -
For tools that needs to be always compiled with the host headers.
Cc: Adrian Hunter
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Cc: Wang Nan
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-907q32k2nep6q670dkxypmu6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
12 Jan, 2016
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After this patch other directories can use this architecture detector
without directly including it from perf's directory. Libbpf would
utilize it to get proper $(ARCH) so it can receive correct uapi include
directory.Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Cc: Zefan Li
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452520124-2073-8-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
[ Add missing srctree definition in tests/make ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
