Obsoleting unmaintained targets

[Jim Wilson]

chewbaccathewookie@att.net wrote:
> 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. 

The i960 gcc port has been broken for about 3 and a half years now, and 
the gdb support has already been deleted.  Maintaining a compiler port 
is a lot of work.  It isn't practical for us to maintain the port for 
one person who has one processor.  You can try using a gcc-2.x compiler 
for i960 work.  It should work fine.  It just won't have all of the new 
gcc features.  There are also binaries for a modified gcc toolchain 
available for download from the Intel web site.  (Or at least there used 
to be.)

There are i370 and s390 ports.  The i370 has been unmaintained for a 
long time.  The s390 port is the one that is used to build the s390 
toolchains.  It is not affected by this change.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com