Re: Deprecation/removal of nios2 target support

Joel Sherrill <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:57:18 -0500

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM Joseph Myers <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
>
> > Therefore I'd like to mark Nios II as obsolete in GCC 14 now, and remove
> > support from all toolchain components after the release is made.  I'm
> not sure
> > there is an established process for obsoleting/removing support in other
> > components; besides binutils, GDB, and GLIBC, there's QEMU,
> newlib/libgloss,
> > and the Linux kernel.  But, we need to get the ball rolling somewhere.
>
> CC:ing Arnd Bergmann regarding the obsolescence in the Linux kernel.
>

Just an FYI that the RTEMS Project plans to drop NIOS II support based
on what happens with the tooling.

--joel

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> Joseph S. Myers
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