[Buildroot] [PATCH 22/22] xtensa: remove support for this architecture

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Apr 25 09:09:14 UTC 2012


Le Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:44:38 +0200,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> a écrit :

> >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  Thomas> The support for Xtensa has been added in July 2009, and no updates
>  Thomas> have ever been done to it, and it requires some special handling, in
>  Thomas> gcc/gdb, has some special Perl scripts, etc.
> 
> As discussed on IRC, I would prefer to simply mark Xtensa as deprecated
> for now, and then remove in the next cycle if nothing happens.

I am fine with this decision, and will send a patch that implements it.
My patch removing Xtensa support was mainly to get the discussion
started.

Thanks,

Thomas
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