[doc PATCH] Obsolete support for POWER and POWER2

[David Edelsohn]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Segher Boessenkool
<segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> Probably no one uses these old processors anymore, and support for them
> is getting in the way of other work in the rs6000 port.
>
> Let's remove it in 4.6.  Okay?
>
>
> Segher
>
>
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.90
> diff -u -r1.90 changes.html
> --- changes.html        27 Apr 2010 13:53:21 -0000      1.90
> +++ changes.html        28 May 2010 00:58:41 -0000
> @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
>        href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00510.html">announcement</a>.</li>
>     </ul>
>
> +    <p>Support for the POWER and POWER2 processors has been obsoleted in
> +       the (increasingly misnamed) rs6000 port.  This is the old POWER,
> +       not Power Architecture.</p>
> +
>     </li>
>
>     <li>Support has been removed for all the

Please make another attempt at the language of the statement without
editorializing about the name of the port.

Thanks, David