Hello,
in https://lwn.net/Articles/749293/ remove TILE CPU, used by CCR1036-12G-4S. Will be wokring new version RouterOS?
Most probably the new ros will not be based on newest Linux. I do not believe that mikrotik is so brave to discontinue their own flagships. Or there are also many other ways what to do…
There will be a brief reprieve for blackfin and tile, which will be removed “later this year” unless a maintainer comes forward.
They need a maintainer and Mikrotik Programmers can join the kernel development and help maintaining it.
It is a good practice to do so. Mikrotik is actively using the linux kernel and contributing to it once in a while wont hurt.
There’s no problem, it was only removed now. So if they use latest available version for RouterOS v7, which is expected in early 202x by optimists, they’re set for the life of the architecture. When the next RouterOS v8 comes in 203x, whole Tile will be already obsolete.
Sorry, I had to. 
Really fantastic 
As you say, mikrotik is going to use a deprecated linux version without any problem. I’ve always thought mikrotik owner’s goal is to travel around with MUM and they don’t care anything else
Lets be fair, they do add many nice features to RouterOS. Their hardware is nice too. There’s more behind it than just desire to travel. 
OTOH, if Mikrotik sees future in Tilera, they might start to maintain platform specific things. They could even only maintain only needed parts of Tilera-specific kernel source tree. That would be useless for any third party Tilera victims, but could do it for Mikrotik business.
Maintaining stable code tree in kernel is not that hard. Mostly it involves implementing some changes in API/ABI and bug-fixes. More work is to implement new functionality, but if Tilera maintenance was private, this part wouldn’t be really necessary.
I think that they are not sure what should be the future, but arm might look really promising. Single core performance is still much more important instead of hundred of cores that should do things which cannot be effectively parallelized. Mikrotik will not say clear word about this for long time, I bet. We can just see what next decade brings and speculate.
Also see this.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/new-router-os/115334/38
If you have something to this topic, continue there…