Re: Deprecation/removal of nios2 target support
Jeff Law <[email protected]>
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On 4/18/24 9:57 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 10:46 AM Joseph Myers <[email protected] > <mailto:[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. ACK. Just one more note to the wider audience. I looked at QEMU's user mode support for nios2 on/off over the last couple years. It never seemed to work well enough be able to run the GCC testsuite reliably. As a result, my tester builds nios2 and will run the testsuite, but all the execution tests are only built, they're not actually run. It's been fairly stable, but its not doing in-depth testing. jeff