Re: deprecate i960 now?

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

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.

The algorithm I use to detect obsolete architectures is Google - if the only
references to an architecture are in GNU sources or in historical 
retrospectives,
then it's dead.  If the company is selling chips, it's not dead yet 
(although it
moight be stone cold in a moment :-) ).

Stan