Unsupported targets slated for removal
Mark Kettenis
mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
Fri Mar 25 23:57:00 GMT 2005
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:43:28 +1030
From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:56:00PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:10:16 +1030
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> I propose that the following targets be marked as unsupported in the
> binutils 2.16 release, and be removed from mainline.
>
> What do you mean with "removed from mainline" here? These targets
I want to kill all non-BFD_ASSEMBLER gas targets, to reduce the
maintenance burden, and allow BFD_ASSEMBLER gas targets to be cleaned up
without worrying about breaking the old code. That will mean the
generic support code in gas for non-BFD_ASSEMBLER will disappear from
mainline. Whether the corresponding tc-* files disappear or not doesn't
matter so much, but I favour complete removal. You won't be able to
build these gas targets until they are converted over to use BFD.
Fair enough. Removing the tc-* files makes sense; people can always
get them from the attick or previous releases.
> from your list:
>
> m88k-*-*
>
> vax-*-netbsd*
> vax-*-bsd*
> vax-*-ultrix*
>
> are still fully supported by me in GDB, and support for them shouldn't
> be removed from bdf/ and opcodes/.
OK, I guess that's reasonable. Please list yourself as a maintainer
in binutils/MAINTAINERS!
I've added myself as m88k maintainer. I'm not too familliar with the
architecture, so if someone else steps up, I'll be perfectly happy to
step down.
The binutils/MAINTAINERS list already lists Jason R Thorpe as VAX
maintainer, so I didn't add myself there. I suppose Jason is mostly
interested in vax-*-netbsdelf* and not with the old a.out
vax-*-netbsd* stuff. Jason, if you want me to be co-maintainer for
the a.out stuff, please drop me another mail.
Mark
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