From: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch: remove support for SuperH 2 and SuperH 3
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:14:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5163B1DD.3030401@mind.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365362725-30251-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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@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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-09 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-07 19:25 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] Remove SH2 and SH3 support Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-07 19:25 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] fs/jffs2: refactor endianess selection to use BR2_ENDIAN Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-11 13:57 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-04-07 19:25 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch: remove support for SuperH 2 and SuperH 3 Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-09 6:14 ` Arnout Vandecappelle [this message]
2013-04-11 9:04 ` phil.edworthy at renesas.com
2013-04-11 9:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-04-11 10:11 ` phil.edworthy at renesas.com
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