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

[Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 08:03:00PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> The AVR32 architecture from Atmel is obsolete since a long time, not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@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@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 +	# This architecture is obsolete and complicated to maintain to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

s/to do/due to/

baruch

> +	# 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
>  	help
>  	  The AVR32 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor architecture designed by
>  	  Atmel.

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