From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 23:22:12 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] arch/x86: remove support for i386 In-Reply-To: <1459453188-23705-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> References: <1459453188-23705-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <57003804.5000105@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 03/31/16 21:39, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > The Linux kernel doesn't even support i386 anymore, there is no NPTL > support for i386 and uClibc-ng only supports NPTL on x86, so there is > essentially no usable thread implementation. Most likely glibc and > musl also don't support i386 either. So it's time to remove the > support for this architecture variant. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) However, I think there is also a line in qemu.mk that should be removed (describing the mapping from BR arches to qemu arches). Also, perhaps add a legacy entry? Even though BR2_x86_i386 is a member of a choice, that fact is not visible in the .config so it can be added as a normal bool option to the Config.in.legacy. Regards, Arnout > --- > .defconfig | 1 - > arch/Config.in.x86 | 5 ----- > package/openssl/openssl.mk | 5 ----- > package/uclibc/Config.in | 3 +-- > toolchain/toolchain-common.in | 3 --- > toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in | 3 +-- > 6 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) [snip] -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF