From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baruch Siach Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:16:00 +0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] arch: deprecate the AVR32 architecture In-Reply-To: <1404237789-15563-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1404237789-15563-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140701181600.GR4425@tarshish> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 The AVR32 architecture from Atmel is obsolete since a long time, not 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 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni > --- > 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 + # This architecture is obsolete and complicated to maintain to 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. -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch at tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -