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    arch: remove tile port · bb9d8126
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    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 <chris.d.metcalf@gmail.com>
    Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
    Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview
    Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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