Probably no one uses these old processors anymore, and support for them is getting in the way of other work in the rs6000 port.
Let's remove it in 4.6. Okay? Segher RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.5/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.90 diff -u -r1.90 changes.html --- changes.html 27 Apr 2010 13:53:21 -0000 1.90 +++ changes.html 28 May 2010 00:58:41 -0000 @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-01/msg00510.html">announcement</a>.</li> </ul> + <p>Support for the POWER and POWER2 processors has been obsoleted in + the (increasingly misnamed) rs6000 port. This is the old POWER, + not Power Architecture.</p> + </li> <li>Support has been removed for all the