[Buildroot] [PATCH 22/22] xtensa: remove support for this architecture

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Apr 25 09:21:56 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 Thomas> Le Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:44:38 +0200,
 Thomas> Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> a écrit :

 >> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
 >> 
 Thomas> The support for Xtensa has been added in July 2009, and no updates
 Thomas> have ever been done to it, and it requires some special handling, in
 Thomas> gcc/gdb, has some special Perl scripts, etc.
 >> 
 >> As discussed on IRC, I would prefer to simply mark Xtensa as deprecated
 >> for now, and then remove in the next cycle if nothing happens.

 Thomas> I am fine with this decision, and will send a patch that implements it.
 Thomas> My patch removing Xtensa support was mainly to get the discussion
 Thomas> started.

Good. I already added the BR2_DEPRECATED (555c2585b).

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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