[PATCH] Remove Solaris/PowerPC support

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Mon Sep 15 14:39:17 GMT 2025


On 15.09.2025 11:56, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Solaris/PowerPC was a shortlived Solaris port with limited hardware
> support.  It was released with Solaris 2.5.1 back in 1996, with support
> removed again only a year later in Solaris 2.6.  Since this is long
> obsolete, this patch removes the remains of the support.
> 
> Tested by a cross to ppc-unknown-linux-gnu to ascertain the build didn't
> get broken.

Okay as far as the non-PPC parts go. For the PPC parts I'd prefer if
target maintainers gave their okay.

> There are two issues to note:
> 
> * gas/stabs.c has a Solaris/PowerPC reference.  I've left that as is.
> 
> * The gas/po files need to be regenerated.  I've now idea how, so I left
>   them alone.

They're updated independently afaik, so leaving alone is trttd.

>  At that occasion I noticed that there are both es.po and
>   gas.es.po in gas/po.  I found that confusing.

That's odd indeed. Without looking closely, my inclination is that they
can simply be removed.

Jan


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