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Re: make sh-1 support in gcc obsolete?
- From: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>
- To: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at superh dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 21:00:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: make sh-1 support in gcc obsolete?
- Organization: OAR Corporation
- References: <3CF40F53.54D445D3@superh.com> <1023068820.2243.20.camel@dhcppc2>
- Reply-to: joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com
Anthony Green wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:14, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > Now, while sh-coff might be used in the future as a starting
> > point for a coff-based OS port, I can't see any such redeeming
> > features for SH-1. Moreover, by removing sh-1 support, we'll also remove
> > two multilibs from the standard sh-elf port, thus reducing build times,
> > test times, and binary toolchain size.
>
> Please don't do this. I just discovered an open source project to
> replace the firmware in my Archos mp3 player, which uses the SH-1.
>
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/rockbox
>
> I'm about to try building an SH-1 toolchain right now...
I'm sure that's not the only SH1 HW platform in that situation. I
just don't know of others personally.
> AG
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