RFC: Deprecate the ARM simulator

[Andrew Burgess]

Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> Hi Andrew,
>
>> Just make sure you do a test GDB build, without specifying
>> --disable-sim, to make sure everything still builds with the sim
>> disabled/gone, i.e. the build doesn't fail looking for a simulator that
>> no longer exists.
>
> Thanks for the reminder.  As it turns out gdb does not build with the
> first version of the patch - it still tries to build the simulator
> because gdb/configure.tgt still lists the arm port as using a sim.
>
> So attached is a second version that changes both the top level
> configure.ac and gdb/confgure.tgt.
>
> Any objections to this version ?

>From the GDB side this seems fine.  I ran a test build and didn't see
any problems.

Is the plan to follow up this patch with one to delete the ARM sim
completely?

If not, then is it actually possible to build the ARM sim anymore after
this patch?  With 'sim' in the noconfigdirs at the top level it now
seems impossible to configure/build the ARM sim... unless there's a way
to bypass this?

Thanks,
Andrew



>
> Cheers
>    Nick