Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Dropping armv5 and armv5e tunes in 2.7

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:01:42PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> You might have noticed a recent commit in gcc trunk
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=b232e6b58e3766bc66fe08fdb7bcba1bdadda8a2
> 
> Which removed support for deprecated -march=armv5 and armv5e, this
> will be released along with gcc-9 release which is upcoming and we
> might be able to add gcc9 to 2.7 release or 2.8 release for sure.
> 
> We still have non-thumb tunes for armv5 and armv4 in our tune pack, I
> would like to propose a patch to remove them.
>...

Note that gcc 9 does *not* remove non-thumb armv4 support.

Non-thumb armv5/armv5e have been removed due to
"have no known implementations".

Non-thumb armv4 support was deprecated in gcc 6 together with armv2/armv3,
but there are still people using recent gcc on StrongARM - which is 
non-thumb armv4.

> Thanks
> -Khem

cu
Adrian

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