Re: [PATCH] Convert SPARC to LRA

[Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>]

On 30/09/15 04:07, Jeff Law wrote:
> > > If the port does get occasional fixes (primarily driven by BZs),
> > > but not getting updated on a regular basis (such as conversion to
> > > LRA, conversion to RTL prologue/epilogue, etc), may be only getting
> > > occasional testing, etc. Then it's probably fair to call it in
> > > maintenance mode.  A great example IMHO would be the m68k.
> >
> > Another criteria would be available hardware for which both the PA
> > and alpha ports are a good example.  When you can't buy new hardware
> > then targets that could formerly host GCC quickly rot to the state
> > where only cross-compilation is viable (and having "old" GCC is good
> > enough).
> Very true. Actually the PA is the best example there.  Alpha I believe 
> has a functional-enough QEMU port to do real work and m68k has Aranym 
> which I've used to bootstrap m68k within the last 18 months.  Hell, I 
> think Aranym actually ran faster than the last shipping real hardware! 

You can still buy m68k based chips (e.g. Freescale ColdFire) for 
embedded systems.

http://www.freescale.com/products/more-processors/32-bit-mcu-and-mcp/coldfire-plus-coldfire-mcus-mpus:PC68KCF

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