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Re: [PATCH] Remove support for FreeBSD/alpha.
On Tuesday, April 04, 2017 08:55:07 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> 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.
To be clear, the patchset only affects kFreeBSD with Alpha, it does not
remove support for using the Linux kernel with Debian on Alpha.
--
John Baldwin