On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Oleg Endo <oleg.e...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > Kaz and I have been discussing the SH5/SH64 status, which is part of the SH > port, every now and then. To our knowledge, there is no real hardware > available as of today and we don't think there are any real users for a > SH5/SH64 toolchain out there. Moreover, the SH5/SH64 parts of the SH port > haven't been touched by anybody for a long time. The only exception is > occasional ad-hoc fixes for bug reports from people who build GCC for every > architecture that is listed in the Linux kernel. However, we don't actually > know whether code compiled for SH5/SH64 still runs at an acceptable level > since nobody has been doing any testing for that architecture for a while now. > > If there are no objections, we would like to deprecate SH5/SH64 support as of > GCC 6. > > Initially this would include an announcement on the changes page and the > removal of any documentation related to SH5/SH64. After GCC 6 we might start > removing configure options and the respective code paths in the target.
+1 - David
