[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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