From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17981 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2005 23:13:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17968 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2005 23:13:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gizmo09ps.bigpond.com) (144.140.71.19) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2005 23:13:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 17994 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2005 23:13:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO psmam12.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.103) by gizmo09ps.bigpond.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2005 23:13:28 -0000 Received: from cpe-144-136-221-26.sa.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.221.26]) by psmam12.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 234/31104774) with SMTP id 31104774; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:13:28 +1000 Received: by bubble.modra.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 66D511A0D1A; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:43:28 +1030 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:24:00 -0000 From: Alan Modra To: Mark Kettenis Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Unsupported targets slated for removal Message-ID: <20050322231328.GF30711@bubble.modra.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <20050321134016.GI1260@bubble.modra.org> <200503222156.j2MLu0Qg029186@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503222156.j2MLu0Qg029186@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00693.txt.bz2 On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:56:00PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:10:16 +1030 > From: Alan Modra > > Hi Alan, > > I propose that the following targets be marked as unsupported in the > binutils 2.16 release, and be removed from mainline. > > What do you mean with "removed from mainline" here? These targets I want to kill all non-BFD_ASSEMBLER gas targets, to reduce the maintenance burden, and allow BFD_ASSEMBLER gas targets to be cleaned up without worrying about breaking the old code. That will mean the generic support code in gas for non-BFD_ASSEMBLER will disappear from mainline. Whether the corresponding tc-* files disappear or not doesn't matter so much, but I favour complete removal. You won't be able to build these gas targets until they are converted over to use BFD. More generally, I think we should remove targets that don't have active maintainers listed in binutils/MAINTAINERS. Again, this is simply to reduce the maintenance burden. Occasionally when making a global change, I'd like to be able to email someone and say "xyz has changed, please fix it for your target", rather than having to dig through some crufty backend code myself. > from your list: > > m88k-*-* > > vax-*-netbsd* > vax-*-bsd* > vax-*-ultrix* > > are still fully supported by me in GDB, and support for them shouldn't > be removed from bdf/ and opcodes/. OK, I guess that's reasonable. Please list yourself as a maintainer in binutils/MAINTAINERS! > Also putting my OpenBSD hat on, vax-*-elf is somewhat important to us, > but from your reaction to Matt Thomass's mail you don't intend to > whack that. No. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre