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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 <[email protected]>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
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0xA0 all linux/sdp/sdp.h Industrial Device Project
<mailto:[email protected]>
0xA1 0 linux/vtpm_proxy.h TPM Emulator Proxy Driver
0xA2 00-0F arch/tile/include/asm/hardwall.h
0xA3 80-8F Port ACL in development:
<mailto:[email protected]>
0xA3 90-9F linux/dtlk.h
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13 changes: 0 additions & 13 deletions MAINTAINERS
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Expand Up @@ -13840,19 +13840,6 @@ S: Orphan
F: drivers/net/wireless/ti/
F: include/linux/wl12xx.h

TILE ARCHITECTURE
W: http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/
S: Orphan
F: arch/tile/
F: drivers/char/tile-srom.c
F: drivers/edac/tile_edac.c
F: drivers/net/ethernet/tile/
F: drivers/rtc/rtc-tile.c
F: drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_tile.c
F: drivers/tty/serial/tilegx.c
F: drivers/usb/host/*-tilegx.c
F: include/linux/usb/tilegx.h

TIMEKEEPING, CLOCKSOURCE CORE, NTP, ALARMTIMER
M: John Stultz <[email protected]>
M: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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SRCARCH := sh
endif

# Additional ARCH settings for tile
ifeq ($(ARCH),tilepro)
SRCARCH := tile
endif
ifeq ($(ARCH),tilegx)
SRCARCH := tile
endif

KCONFIG_CONFIG ?= .config
export KCONFIG_CONFIG

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