From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21207 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2002 18:44:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 21193 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2002 18:44:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO palantir.xbc.nu) (213.143.69.107) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2002 18:44:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 30152 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2002 18:43:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xbc.nu) (172.17.19.19) by mx.xbc.nu with SMTP; 3 Oct 2002 18:43:57 -0000 Message-ID: <3D9C8FED.1070803@xbc.nu> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:19:00 -0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: sl, en-gb, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Shebs CC: Mike Stump , Richard Henderson , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: deprecate i960 now? References: <1D8801BD-D6F9-11D6-96D2-000393941EE6@apple.com> <3D9C8CEC.90600@apple.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.65.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00175.txt.bz2 Stan Shebs wrote: > Mike Stump wrote: > >> On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Richard Henderson wrote: >> >>> I propose that we follow suit and add i960 to the deprecated list >>> for 3.3 so that it is removed in 3.4. >> >> >> >> I'll second it. I think most manufacturing capacity for 960 things >> is gone now, and while certain companies had a stock pile of parts, >> in time, even those will be gone. >> > Intel sez they're cranking them in large volumes, and making record > revenue > too. They're not doing new designs though. i960 seems to be the XOR processor of choice on ATA RAID boards (Promise Fasttrak SX6000, 3ware Escalade series). I doubt those compaines are using stockpiled ships in their flagship products. -- Brane Čibej http://www.xbc.nu/brane/