[U-Boot] Remove sparc archiecture?

[Daniel Hellstrom]

On 10/19/2015 04:54 PM, Francois Retief wrote:
> Hallo Daniel,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daniel Hellstrom [mailto:daniel at gaisler.com]
>> Sent: 18 October 2015 11:30 PM
>> To: Masahiro Yamada<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Remove sparc archiecture?
>>
>> On 10/18/2015 05:20 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> (+CC Francois)
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-10-18 21:24 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini<trini at konsulko.com>:
>>>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 06:19:16AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like sparc has no maintainer and has not been converted to
>>>>> generic board. Should we remove it?
>>>> Well, not quite "no maintainer", but... Daniel?  SPARC is in need of
>>>> some work (and possibly a new toolchain too, I stopped building it all
>>>> the time due to a false positive warning the 3.4.4 toolchain I have
>>>> gives).  Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tom
>>> I see generic board work for SPARC
>>>
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404616/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404618/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404617/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404619/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404620/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404622/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404621/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404624/
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/404623/
>>>
>>> but, Daniel was not responding...
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps, replace the maintainer if Francois agrees?
>> I regret to say that I've been too busy last two years and I don't see a
>> change during 2015 either.
>>
>> I would not like to see the SPARC port removed now that the LEON
>> community grows as new LEON3 and LEON4 chips comes to market. WIth
>> multi-core and higher frequency there is a growing interest in u-boot
>> from the LEON community.
>>
>> Nowadays there are LEON GCC targets mcpu=leon,leon3,leon3v7 so it should
>> be possible to setup a working toolchain based on GCC-4.9 which we use
>> for Linux and RTEMS. In the past I've used a GCC-4.4 toolchain from
>> Cobham Gaisler.
>>
>> If Francois agrees it is probably a good idea to let him take over the
>> SPARC as he has put work into both BSP and architecture. Although I
>> would like to acknowledge my interest in u-boot and I hope and believe
>> that my efforts will be resumed in the future. Francois, if you feel it
>> is too much a temporary replacement could also be an option if the
>> u-boot project allows it.
> Yes, I am willing to take over as maintainer until such time that Daniel is ready
> to resume his effort in future. We are investing in the LEON as archtecture and
> would like to see U-Boot support for SPARC continuing into the future.
Thanks!
> Daniel, I would just like to ask if you could stay on as an advisor, if at all possible.
> I have only access to one LEON3FT board at the moment and may require advice
> on other devices as time goes by.  I will try to keep questions consise and as
> infrequent as possible for you.

I'm on parental leave until January, but I'll do my best.

Regards,
Daniel

> Will rebase my patch set to the latest release this week and resend them for review.
> Masahiro, what version of GCC is prefered (if any) for the next release  of U-Boot.
> I am currently using the GCC-4.4 toolchain from Cobham Gaisler.
>
> Regards,
>    Francois
>
>
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