[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] arch: deprecate the AVR32 architecture
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Thu Jul 10 12:33:41 UTC 2014
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> The AVR32 architecture from Atmel is obsolete since a long time, not
> supported upstream in most of the toolchain components (requires a
> special version of gcc, an old version of uClibc, etc.). Until
> February, Simon Dawson was making an excellent job at maintaining
> AVR32 in Buildroot, and fixing all the issues caused by this
> architecture. However, Simon focus has changed, and despite his call
> for a new maintainer for AVR32 in Buildroot, nobody stepped up.
> The issue of maintaining AVR32 is becoming worse and worse, so this
> patch proposes to deprecate it for 2014.08, but keeping the support
> around, to remove it for sure in 2014.11.
> Cc: Simon Dawson <spdawson at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> arch/Config.in | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> diff --git a/arch/Config.in b/arch/Config.in
> index 1f60f81..77fae7a 100644
> --- a/arch/Config.in
> +++ b/arch/Config.in
> @@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ config BR2_aarch64
> config BR2_avr32
> bool "AVR32"
> select BR2_SOFT_FLOAT
> + # This architecture is obsolete and complicated to maintain to
> + # do the lack of upstream support in the major toolchain
> + # components. If you're interested by AVR32, contact the
> + # Buildroot community. Otherwise, its support will be removed
> + # in 2014.11.
> + depends on BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2014_08
I agree that we should get rid of avr32, but I can also follow Thomas'
input about the normal deprecation cycle.
With summer holidays coming up, chances are that people might miss it
from the 2014.08 relase notes - Perhaps a compromise would be to only
remove it by 2015.02?
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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