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Re: [PATCH] Remove support for FreeBSD/alpha.
- From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>
- To: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 20:55:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for FreeBSD/alpha.
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- References: <20170404181008.6978-1-jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1861651.fu0D0FxiPB@ralph.baldwin.cx>
On 04/04/2017 08:44 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> I have not reached out to anyone at Debian about GNU/kFreeBSD on Alpha, but
> I strongly doubt anyone there is actually testing/using that on Alpha since
> FreeBSD removed alpha support so long ago. The existing images for
> kFreeBSD only include support for amd64 and i386.
That's correct. I don't even know whether there ever actually was a Debian
kFreeBSD/alpha port in existence. However, Debian on Linux/alpha still works
and we're still providing up-to-date packages. So, please don't drop the
Linux/alpha target from GDB.
In general, currently not bootstrapped targets can be automatically bootstrapped
in Debian with the help of the rebootstrap project [1]. So, we can potentially
support anything the toolchain/glibc/kernel supports.
Adrian
> [1] https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/
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