From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:33:22 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Anyone interested in the AVR32 architecture? Message-ID: <20140406153322.3c71b9ad@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, Almost two months ago, Simon Dawson, said he would no longer have the possibility of maintaining the AVR32 support in Buildroot, and was asking whether someone could step up to continue maintaining this architecture. Two months later, there has been no volunteer to do that. The AVR32 architecture is problematic, because it is been abandoned by Atmel, there is no upstream support in many of the toolchain components (binutils, gcc, etc.), the uClibc support only works with the old uClibc 0.9.31, a number of packages are having issues on AVR32 due to these problems. Therefore, unless someone steps up to maintain the AVR32 architecture moving forward, I'm proposing to mark this architecture as deprecated for the 2014.05 release. It will not be removed at this point, but it will no longer be visible by default from menuconfig, and we will stop doing autobuilder testing for this architecture. So to sum up: if you're interested in AVR32, please speak up, now! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com