https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88284
--- Comment #7 from sandra at gcc dot gnu.org --- While Intel has revived the "Altera" name, the Nios II processor is still listed as discontinued. I see they are offering ARM-based FPGA products again instead. For many years Altera (and later Intel) had a business relationship with CodeSourcery/Mentor Graphics/Siemens to provide long-term support for the GNU toolchain on Nios II, but that contract ended a year ago, Siemens decided to get out of the compiler services business entirely, and both Chung-Lin and I changed jobs shortly afterwards and are now at BayLibre. The real issue with continuing upstream toolchain support is that we lost our test configuration; the boards were returned to Intel and even if our right to use the simulators and support software they'd provided us with didn't end when the contract did, it certainly didn't transfer to BayLibre. BayLibre sales did talk to Intel earlier this year and they were still not interested in Nios II support, so we basically had no choice but to pull the plug.
