Re: Obsoleting unmaintained targets

[chewbaccathewookie at att dot net]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Actually yes. I see a need for the Big Foot one, thats i370, and the Intel 
i960. For example for the i960 I do have a processor here, been shopping for 
a board for it, for a while now.  As for the i370 one, isn't that the core 
for  building s/390 based kernel? There should be one for i390 instead then. 
Just my two cents.
Gregg C Levine chewbaccathewookie atsign worldnet dot att dot net

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> In the GCC 3.4 release (still some time in the future), the GCC 
> developers are obsoleting a number of old unmaintained targets. 
> Obsoleting these old systems allows the development team to focus its 
> limited resources to support those systems that are used by more people.
> 
> These targets can still be configured by using the --enable-obsolete 
> option.  If no one steps forward to maintain these targets, they will be 
> deleted in a future gcc release.
> 
> Below, please find the complete list, in the form of GNU target 
> triplets.  This has been extensively revised from the list that was 
> originally posted in March.
> 
> If you feel strongly that support for one of these targets should not be 
> removed, please contact us by email to gcc@gcc.gnu.org.  Traditionally, 
> GCC has been more receptive to requests that a particular target not be 
> removed if a volunteer is available to maintain that target, so if 
> you're interested in volunteering you should state that explicitly. 

> Also, "there are 1000 of us using this machine heavily all day long and 
> we were planning to upgrade to GCC 3.4" is probably more likely to sway 
> the development team than "I think there is still one of those in my 
> closet." :-)
> 
> All targets for these architectures have been obsoleted:
> 	d30v-*
> 	dsp16xx-*
> 	i370-*
> 	i960-*
> 
> Individual targets that have been obsoleted:
> 	i?86-moss-msdos
> 	i?86-*-moss*
> 	i?86-ncr-sysv4*
> 	i?86-*-netware
> 	i?86-*-freebsd2*
> 	i?86-*-freebsd*aout*
> 	i?86-*-linux*aout*
> 	i?86-*-linux*libc1*
> 	# This does not affect Interix3 support which remains.
> 	i?86-*-interix
> 	i?86-*-mach*
> 	i?86-*-udk*
> 	i?86-*-sysv[123]*
> 	i386-*-vsta
> 
> 	m68k-hp-hpux*
> 	m68000-hp-hpux*
> 	m68k-*-sysv4*
> 
> 	# This is only the a.out netbsd targets, the elf netbsd targets
> 	# remain.
> 	m68k*-*-netbsd*
> 
> 	# This is only the default target, which is no longer useful.
> 	# The *BSD, Ultrix, and Sysv targets remain.
> 	vax-*-*
> -- 
> Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
>