[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain/gcc: Introduce BR2_ARCH_HAS_GCC_x_y_PLUS

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi Sam, Konrad,

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,
>
> On Fri, 03 May 2013 18:31:56 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>
>>   I'm not very excited about the sparcleon situation. But perhaps that
>> architecture can be deprecated? It's not even in our autobuilders AFAIK.
>
> I think we had one guy interested in the SPARC Leon support. I remember
> proposing to remove SPARC support entirely, and one person stepped up
> to say that he was using SPARC Leon stuff. See
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-July/036382.html.
>
> I don't think Sam ever sent any patch related to SPARC support.
>
> However, Konrad Eisele sent a bunch of SPARC related patches. However,
> the last SPARC-related patches Konrad has sent have been sent on
> November 2010. He later sent some other patches (November 2011), but
> they were kconfig related, and were extensions to the kconfig language,
> something we're not ready to accept if they are not part of the
> upstream kconfig code in the Linux kernel.
>
> I've added Sam and Konrad in Cc to see if they are still using SPARC
> support, and whether it's worth adding a sparc sample to our
> autobuilders.

I'm reviving this older thread.
Are any of you still interested in SPARC support in buildroot (see above) ?

Thanks,
Thomas