> I'm not suggesting that SuperH would become an official port today when it is clearly dead. But the question is why it was never an official port even when it

> I'm not suggesting that SuperH would become an official port today when it is clearly dead. But the question is why it was never an official port even when it was in its prime. Because Renesas dropped the architecture and stopped paying developers maintaining it upstream. > As for the installed base, it is absolutely terrifyingly large. They had a lot of wins in automotive, and popular consumer products like Sonos are based on it, or were for the first decade of that product line, and those products also run Linux. That's true. But these systems were developed before Renesas stopped supporting the architecture.