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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2010-07-26 18:15:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> | 2010-07-27 23:23:42 +0200 |
| commit | a563a663471ed1e3a8344b27255850e7c7094a23 (patch) | |
| tree | 37ee727580a0bb49f4d0fea84ddf31997f064326 | |
| parent | f3b3f488eff4a36c2ace5d1a698aa71daa73a1a2 (diff) | |
Deprecate the Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 support
Those architectures don't exist anymore (Alpha, IA64) or aren't widely
used for embedded systems running Linux. Moreover, no clear Buildroot
maintainer has stepped in to maintain these architectures, so it's
better to not pretend that we support them.
The goal is to mark them as deprecated in 2010.08 and remove them in
2010.11.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | target/Config.in.arch | 11 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ support this, they will be removed during the 2010.11 development cycle. + Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 architectures marked as deprecated. + Unless someone steps up to support them, they will be removed + during the 2010.11 development cycle. + New packages: cgilua, copas, coxpcall, ffmpeg, libsvgtiny, luafilesystem, luasocket, rings, wsapi, xavante, xterm diff --git a/target/Config.in.arch b/target/Config.in.arch index 3efebb86a..d3a402582 100644 --- a/target/Config.in.arch +++ b/target/Config.in.arch @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ choice config BR2_alpha bool "alpha" + # Alpha does not exist anymore and has never been used in + # embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it. + depends on BR2_DEPRECATED depends on BROKEN # no threads, shared libs, gcc psignal compile errors config BR2_arm bool "arm" @@ -21,6 +24,9 @@ config BR2_cris bool "cris" config BR2_ia64 bool "ia64" + # IA64 almost does not exist anymore and has never been used + # in embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it. + depends on BR2_DEPRECATED depends on BROKEN # uclibc linker errors config BR2_i386 bool "i386" @@ -40,6 +46,11 @@ config BR2_sh64 config BR2_sparc bool "sparc" config BR2_sparc64 + # Sparc64 isn't really used in embedded systems, and in the + # cases where it is used, Linux doesn't seem to be common, and + # as of today we don't have a maintainer in Buildroot who + # wants to take care of the sparc support. + depends on BR2_DEPRECATED bool "sparc64" select BR2_ARCH_IS_64 config BR2_x86_64 |