[PATCH] Remove Solaris/PowerPC support
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 01:13:30 GMT 2025
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 11:56:34AM +0200, 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.
I'll OK this patch.
> Tested by a cross to ppc-unknown-linux-gnu to ascertain the build didn't
> get broken.
>
> There are two issues to note:
>
> * gas/stabs.c has a Solaris/PowerPC reference. I've left that as is.
Please remove that too. The changelog entry said it was added for
compatibility with the Solaris assembler.
> * The gas/po files need to be regenerated. I've now idea how, so I left
> them alone. At that occasion I noticed that there are both es.po and
> gas.es.po in gas/po. I found that confusing.
It looks like gas.es.po was an error, and es.po is newer. I'll remove
gas.es.po.
--
Alan Modra
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