Re: Deprecating and removing old targets

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

On 9/12/2016 6:58 AM, Oleg Endo wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 09:37 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > * all a.out targets
> > * all NetWare targets (nlm)
> > * all ecoff targets (alpha and mips)
> > * very old cpus: m88k, ns32k, i960, appolo, w65, we32k, pc532
> > * very old os: sunos-4, irix, sco, newsos, OSF, risc-ix
> > * very old formats: ieee-695, xsym, ppcboot, pef
> >
> > I may forget some of them...
> >
> > Targets I think we should keep:
> > * vax
> > * z80
> > * pdp11
> > * m68k, m68xx

I don't think these two should have been lumped together.
The m68k covers m68k and Coldfire. I think with Freescale
now being part of NXP, I am not sure if any Coldfire part
is recommended for new designs or not but they are out
there and projects will be using them for a long time.

From an RTEMS perspective, we have users still hanging
on to m68040 VMEBus boards. As long as there is a NIC,
the boards are still useful and paid for in at least some
national labs. They have them and use them.

the m68xx's I recall were 8 bit parts although I think
some are 16.

> > * hppa
> > * alpha (elf, vms)
> > * dlx
>
> +1 for keeping 68K and Z80 in :)

I agree.

> Cheers,
> Oleg
--joel