Commit a563a663 authored by Thomas Petazzoni's avatar Thomas Petazzoni Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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Deprecate the Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 support 



Those architectures don't exist anymore (Alpha, IA64) or aren't widely
used for embedded systems running Linux. Moreover, no clear Buildroot
maintainer has stepped in to maintain these architectures, so it's
better to not pretend that we support them.

The goal is to mark them as deprecated in 2010.08 and remove them in
2010.11.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent f3b3f488

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	support this, they will be removed during the 2010.11

	development cycle.



	Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 architectures marked as deprecated.

	Unless someone steps up to support them, they will be removed

	during the 2010.11 development cycle.



	New packages: cgilua, copas, coxpcall, ffmpeg, libsvgtiny,

	luafilesystem, luasocket, rings, wsapi, xavante, xterm

target/Config.in.arch

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config BR2_alpha

	bool "alpha"

	# Alpha does not exist anymore and has never been used in

	# embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it.

	depends on BR2_DEPRECATED

	depends on BROKEN # no threads, shared libs, gcc psignal compile errors

config BR2_arm

	bool "arm"
@@ -21,6 +24,9 @@ config BR2_cris 
	bool "cris"

config BR2_ia64

	bool "ia64"

	# IA64 almost does not exist anymore and has never been used

	# in embedded systems, so we'll remove support for it.

	depends on BR2_DEPRECATED

	depends on BROKEN # uclibc linker errors

config BR2_i386

	bool "i386"
@@ -40,6 +46,11 @@ config BR2_sh64 
config BR2_sparc

	bool "sparc"

config BR2_sparc64

	# Sparc64 isn't really used in embedded systems, and in the

	# cases where it is used, Linux doesn't seem to be common, and

	# as of today we don't have a maintainer in Buildroot who

	# wants to take care of the sparc support.

	depends on BR2_DEPRECATED

	bool "sparc64"

	select BR2_ARCH_IS_64

config BR2_x86_64