[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Deprecate the Alpha, IA64, Sparc and Sparc64 support
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jul 26 14:51:26 UTC 2010
Those architectures don't exist anymore (Alpha, IA64) or aren't widely
used for embedded systems running Linux. Moreover, no clear Buildroot
maintainer has stepped in to maintain these architectures, so it's
better to not pretend that we support them.
The goal is to mark them as deprecated in 2010.08 and remove them in
2010.11.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
target/Config.in.arch | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/target/Config.in.arch b/target/Config.in.arch
index 62721c9..726d843 100644
--- a/target/Config.in.arch
+++ b/target/Config.in.arch
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ choice
config BR2_alpha
bool "alpha"
+ # Alpha does not exist anymore and has never been used in
+ # embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it.
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
depends on BROKEN # no threads, shared libs, gcc psignal compile errors
config BR2_arm
bool "arm"
@@ -18,6 +21,9 @@ config BR2_cris
bool "cris"
config BR2_ia64
bool "ia64"
+ # IA64 almost does not exist anymore and has never been used
+ # in embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it.
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
depends on BROKEN # uclibc linker errors
config BR2_i386
bool "i386"
@@ -35,8 +41,18 @@ config BR2_sh
config BR2_sh64
bool "superh64"
config BR2_sparc
+ # Sparc isn't really used in embedded systems, and in the
+ # cases where it is used, Linux doesn't seem to be common, and
+ # as of today we don't have a maintainer in Buildroot who
+ # wants to take care of the sparc support.
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
bool "sparc"
config BR2_sparc64
+ # Sparc64 isn't really used in embedded systems, and in the
+ # cases where it is used, Linux doesn't seem to be common, and
+ # as of today we don't have a maintainer in Buildroot who
+ # wants to take care of the sparc support.
+ depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
bool "sparc64"
config BR2_x86_64
bool "x86_64"
--
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