[Buildroot] [PATCH] arch: drop now useless support for FDPIC
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon May 21 20:22:48 UTC 2018
Thomas, All,
On 2018-05-21 21:58 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018 18:17:06 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Now that we dropped support for blackfin, we no longer have any
> > architecture that supports FDPIC, so BR2_ARCH_HAS_FDPIC_SUPPORT
> > is never selected, so we can't select BR2_BINFMT_FDPIC.
> >
> > Drop all of that now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
>
> When I dropped Blackfin support, I wondered about dropping FDPIC
> support. But I know people are working on FDPIC support on ARM, so I
> wasn't sure it was useful to drop it now, and re-add it later on.
Oh, well, I was just "Eh, this is dead code, it's gonna birot. Better
burry it now sit does not stink too much yet..." ;-)
But we can always git-revert that code later when/if FDPIC gets
resurected for another arch...
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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