From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Hellstrom Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:30:24 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Remove sparc archiecture? In-Reply-To: References: <20151018122425.GX23893@bill-the-cat> Message-ID: <56240F70.8020701@gaisler.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 10/18/2015 05:20 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > (+CC Francois) > > > 2015-10-18 21:24 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini : >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 06:19:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It looks like sparc has no maintainer and has not been converted to >>> generic board. Should we remove it? >> Well, not quite "no maintainer", but... Daniel? SPARC is in need of >> some work (and possibly a new toolchain too, I stopped building it all >> the time due to a false positive warning the 3.4.4 toolchain I have >> gives). Thanks! >> >> -- >> Tom > > I see generic board work for SPARC > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404616/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404618/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404617/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404619/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404620/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404622/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404621/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404624/ > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404623/ > > but, Daniel was not responding... > > > Perhaps, replace the maintainer if Francois agrees? I regret to say that I've been too busy last two years and I don't see a change during 2015 either. I would not like to see the SPARC port removed now that the LEON community grows as new LEON3 and LEON4 chips comes to market. WIth multi-core and higher frequency there is a growing interest in u-boot from the LEON community. Nowadays there are LEON GCC targets mcpu=leon,leon3,leon3v7 so it should be possible to setup a working toolchain based on GCC-4.9 which we use for Linux and RTEMS. In the past I've used a GCC-4.4 toolchain from Cobham Gaisler. If Francois agrees it is probably a good idea to let him take over the SPARC as he has put work into both BSP and architecture. Although I would like to acknowledge my interest in u-boot and I hope and believe that my efforts will be resumed in the future. Francois, if you feel it is too much a temporary replacement could also be an option if the u-boot project allows it. Best Regards, Daniel Hellstrom