Re: Deprecating and removing old targets

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

On 9/14/2016 11:52 AM, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 10:46 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > On 9/14/2016 10:18 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> > >     > On 12/09/16 08:37, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > >     > Hello,
> > >     >
> > >     > after a short discussion at the GNU cauldron 2016, I'd like to hear
> > >     > opinion about removing old targets in bfd.
> > >     > It is hard to know whether or not they are used, so if you are
> > > using an old target please speak up.
> > >
> > >     Just to be clear, in case anyone reading Tristan email does not know
> > >     this, any targets that we do decide to remove would first be added to
> > >     the obsolete targets list (in bfd/config.bfd), and only once a major
> > >     release has happened (probably 2.28 in this case), would we start
> > >     actually removing code.
> > >
> > > Does that mean I can remove the code for sparc*-*-rtemsaout and
> > > sparc-*-lynxos*?  They have been listed as obsolete in config.bfd for a
> > > long time.
> >
> > AFAIK RTEMS has no active targets that are not ELF. Feel free to kill
> > sparc*-*-rtemsaout or any target like *-*-rtemscoff* or *-*-rtemsaout*.
> >
> >
> > > It would be nice if we could get rid of the sparc-coff (only used by
> > > lynxos AFAIK) an even the sparc-aout (old netBSD, sunos) stuff all at
> > > once.  Only ELF sparc targets would remain..
> >
> > I can't speak for LynxOS but it is a good goal.
> LynxOS?  Like as in the one from the early/mid 90s?  IF so, I'd suggest
> dropping it.  It was a horrid piece of junk and I'd be amazed if anyone
> is still using that garbage.

It is alive and well.  See http://www.lynx.com/

I just emailed one of their kernel developers who said this target
was not in use any longer. But wait for someone from their side to
confirm that.

> Jeff
> \

--joel