Deprecate the Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 support

Those architectures don't exist anymore (Alpha, IA64) or aren't widely
used for embedded systems running Linux. Moreover, no clear Buildroot
maintainer has stepped in to maintain these architectures, so it's
better to not pretend that we support them.

The goal is to mark them as deprecated in 2010.08 and remove them in
2010.11.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index def806bbe2f54296e9bee399659909fa619616ee..8a8c8bb9c6fa478156d81cd655cb4c89b7978c61 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
        support this, they will be removed during the 2010.11
        development cycle.
 
+       Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 architectures marked as deprecated.
+       Unless someone steps up to support them, they will be removed
+       during the 2010.11 development cycle.
+
        New packages: cgilua, copas, coxpcall, ffmpeg, libsvgtiny,
        luafilesystem, luasocket, rings, wsapi, xavante, xterm
 

diff --git a/target/Config.in.arch b/target/Config.in.arch
index 3efebb86a52291502228706df7c2693e2406b0cc..d3a402582248c3b6862c5567ec16c7293070fbaa 100644 (file)
--- a/target/Config.in.arch
+++ b/target/Config.in.arch
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ choice
 
 config BR2_alpha
        bool "alpha"
+       # Alpha does not exist anymore and has never been used in
+       # embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it.
+       depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
        depends on BROKEN # no threads, shared libs, gcc psignal compile errors
 config BR2_arm
        bool "arm"
@@ -21,6 +24,9 @@ config BR2_cris
        bool "cris"
 config BR2_ia64
        bool "ia64"
+       # IA64 almost does not exist anymore and has never been used
+       # in embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it.
+       depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
        depends on BROKEN # uclibc linker errors
 config BR2_i386
        bool "i386"
@@ -40,6 +46,11 @@ config BR2_sh64
 config BR2_sparc
        bool "sparc"
 config BR2_sparc64
+       # Sparc64 isn't really used in embedded systems, and in the
+       # cases where it is used, Linux doesn't seem to be common, and
+       # as of today we don't have a maintainer in Buildroot who
+       # wants to take care of the sparc support.
+       depends on BR2_DEPRECATED
        bool "sparc64"
        select BR2_ARCH_IS_64
 config BR2_x86_64