[PATCH 1/2] Nios2, libbfd: Support new coredump .reg section

Simon Marchi simark@simark.ca
Tue Apr 23 15:31:25 GMT 2024



On 2024-04-23 10:51, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> On 4/23/24 07:28, Luis Machado wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just spotted Sandra's message [1] about nios2 deprecation.
>>
>> Do we have plans for deprecating such support in binutils/gdb as well, for the
>> sake of reducing future maintenance burden?
> 
> Yes, I plan to take care of producing patches to remove the nios2 port entirely from binutils/gdb, as well as from gcc, a little bit farther down the line.  I'm not sure of the best timing with respect to upcoming releases, and at the moment I am swamped with other tasks anyway, but it's definitely on my list of things to do -- I don't want to leave this as a pointless maintenance burden for others.
> 
> -Sandra

Thanks a lot for being proactive with this.

Simon


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