[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] arch: deprecate the AVR32 architecture

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Peter,

On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:33:41 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

>  > 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 +	# This architecture is obsolete and complicated to maintain to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?

Sure, that's fine with me.

Thomas
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