[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch: remove support for SuperH 2 and SuperH 3

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Apr 9 06:14:53 UTC 2013


On 07/04/13 21:25, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> The SuperH 2 architecture is a noMMU architecture from Renesas, and
> its Linux support is really poor. A number of packages fail to build,
> the kernel support is almost inexistant, we have never heard of any
> user of it.
>
> I was originally the one who introduced support for SuperH 2, but the
> project switched to a different architecture due to the poor Linux
> support for SuperH 2.
>
> Regarding SuperH 3, I've never heard of Linux support for it that is
> used in practice.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>   arch/Config.in.sh                        |   18 ++------------
>   package/flashbench/flashbench.mk         |    4 +--
>   package/kexec/Config.in                  |    2 +-
>   package/multimedia/mplayer/Config.in     |    3 +--
>   toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in   |   40 ------------------------------
>   toolchain/toolchain-external/ext-tool.mk |    6 -----
>   toolchain/uClibc/uclibc.mk               |   20 ---------------
>   7 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

  git grep 'sh[23]' tells me:

- some comments in qemu.mk can be removed;
- package/binutils/binutils-*/120-sh-conf.patch can probably be removed 
(I think the target name is always sh-x-y for sh4).

  Regards,
  Arnout

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