From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:55:47 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/10] arch: deprecate the AVR32 architecture In-Reply-To: <87egxtqtp6.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1404237789-15563-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87egxtqtp6.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20140710145547.7ec1ddcf@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Peter, On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:33:41 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > > 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 + # This architecture is obsolete and complicated to maintain to 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 > > + # 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 > > I agree that we should get rid of avr32, but I can also follow Thomas' > input about the normal deprecation cycle. > > With summer holidays coming up, chances are that people might miss it > from the 2014.08 relase notes - Perhaps a compromise would be to only > remove it by 2015.02? Sure, that's fine with me. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com