[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] Remove sh boards that we have no tool-chain for.

[Joe Hershberger]

Hi Masahiro-san,

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
>
>
> 2015-05-11 17:40 GMT+09:00 Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy at renesas.com>:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: U-Boot [mailto:u-boot-bounces at lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Joe
>>> Hershberger
>>> Sent: 10 May 2015 21:23
>>> To: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>>> Cc: Rob Herring; Thierry Reding; Stephen Warren; Joe Hershberger; Hisashi
>>> Nakamura; Masahiro Yamada; Tom Rini; York Sun; Stefan Roese
>>> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] Remove sh boards that we have no tool-chain for.
>>>
>>>
>>> These 6 boards are the last that cannot be built with a public
>>> configuration of tool-chains. Remove them. This includes the SH2 and SH3
>>> cpus, which are the actual cause for not being able to build these
>>> boards.
>> I haven't been keeping an eye on the ml, so didn't see the mails about this. For the sh2a boards, the last toolchain I used was an old CodeSourcery one from 2011 that can be downloaded from http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/sh-uclinux/
>>
>>> They can always be added back if the situation changes.
>> I haven't built any sh2a targets for years and I suspect no one else has either, sh3 is probably even less used. Personally, I think it makes sense to remove all support for sh2a and sh3 now.
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>
> I attended an interesting talk at LinuxCon Japan 2015.
>
> I realized there is on-going movement to leverage patent-free sh2 processor.
>
> Visit this for the abstract:
> http://lccojapan2015.sched.org/event/860288ccda595208a5d7337d31c6075c?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.VXLwxlXtlBd
>
>
> I recommend to keep sh2 support for U-Boot now and keep an eye on this activity.
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> Anyway, you can build all the sh2 boards with the sourcery toolchain,
> so your motivation to delete them is lost.

Sounds good.

-Joe