On 08/18/2015 11:11 AM, David Edelsohn wrote:
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
Works for me based on what I've heard independently about sh5 hardware
situation.
Frankly, I think we should be more aggressive about this kind of
port/variant pruning across the board.
Jeff
