From 01efcf84fe48060a1cfb5b154842e9670d11d979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 20:03:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] arch: deprecate the AVR32 architecture The AVR32 architecture from Atmel is obsolete since a long time, not supported upstream in most of the toolchain components (requires a special version of gcc, an old version of uClibc, etc.). Until February, Simon Dawson was making an excellent job at maintaining AVR32 in Buildroot, and fixing all the issues caused by this architecture. However, Simon focus has changed, and despite his call for a new maintainer for AVR32 in Buildroot, nobody stepped up. The issue of maintaining AVR32 is becoming worse and worse, so this patch proposes to deprecate it for 2014.08, but keeping the support around, to remove it for sure in 2014.11. Cc: Simon Dawson Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Acked-by: Gustavo Zacarias Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- arch/Config.in | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/Config.in b/arch/Config.in index 1f60f81e4b..77fae7a88d 100644 --- a/arch/Config.in +++ b/arch/Config.in @@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ config BR2_aarch64 config BR2_avr32 bool "AVR32" select BR2_SOFT_FLOAT + # This architecture is obsolete and complicated to maintain to + # do the lack of upstream support in the major toolchain + # components. If you're interested by AVR32, contact the + # Buildroot community. Otherwise, its support will be removed + # in 2014.11. + depends on BR2_DEPRECATED_SINCE_2014_08 help The AVR32 is a 32-bit RISC microprocessor architecture designed by Atmel. -- 2.30.2