From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:20:37 -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: <53B31815.9010602@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/01/2014 03:03 PM, 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 The AVR32 architecture from Atmel is obsolete since a long time, not 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 Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias In this case in particular this is not something new and it's being decaying for quite a while with nobody stepping up. With old toolchain components bitroting it's been a while since i've been able to build a toolchain for avr32, much less test anything for it. Regards.