Re: [GIT PULL] C-SKY(csky) Port for Linux 4.20

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Oct 29 2018 - 07:27:32 EST


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:26 AM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:45 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > One more general comment: I think this may well be the last new CPU
> > architecture we ever add to the kernel. Both nds32 and c-sky are made
> > by companies that also work on risc-v, and generally speaking risc-v
> > seems to be killing off any of the minor licensable instruction set projects,
> > just like ARM has mostly killed off the custom vendor-specific instruction
> > sets already. If we add another architecture in the future, it may instead
> > be something like the LLVM bitcode or WebAssembly, who knows?
>
> Kalray MPPA?
>

Ok, I stand corrected. I found the sources at [1], which look like they
are getting ready for an initial submission.

Arnd

[1] https://github.com/kalray/linux_coolidge/commits/kalray-v4.19-rc8