Hi Joe,
2015-05-11 17:40 GMT+09:00 Phil Edworthy phil.edworthy@renesas.com:
Hi Joe,
-----Original Message----- From: U-Boot [mailto:u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Joe Hershberger Sent: 10 May 2015 21:23 To: u-boot@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.
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...
I recommend to keep sh2 support for U-Boot now and keep an eye on this activity.
Anyway, you can build all the sh2 boards with the sourcery toolchain, so your motivation to delete them is lost.