On 09/10/2013 10:19 AM, Jeff Law wrote: > On 09/09/2013 07:13 PM, Chen Gang wrote: >> Hello Maintainers: >> >> After google search and check the Linux kernel, H8/300 is dead, and for >> gcc-4.9.0 and binutils-2.23.2 still has h8300, do we still need it for >> another OS ? >> >> Welcome any suggestions or completions, thanks. >> >> >> The related information in linux kernel next tree: >> >> commit d02babe847bf96b82b12cc4e4e90028ac3fac73f >> Author: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> >> Date: Fri Aug 30 06:01:49 2013 -0700 >> >> Drop support for Renesas H8/300 (h8300) architecture >> >> H8/300 has been dead for several years, and the kernel for it >> has not compiled for ages. Drop support for it. >> >> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp> >> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> >> >> >> The related information in gcc/binutils: >> >> We can build h8300 cross-compiler for Linux kernel, successfully, >> but it has many bugs when building Linux kernel with -Os. >> if we still need h8300 for another OS, is it still valuable to send >> these bugs to Bugzilla (although it is found under Linux)? > It is still useful to send code generation bugs for the H8/300 series to > the GCC folks. >
OK, thanks, I will wait for 1-2 days which may get another members' opinions for discussing. If no additional opinions, I will report them to Bugzilla, and I should try to continue 'work' with related members (although I am a newbie for compiler and binutils programming). > jeff > > > Thanks. -- Chen Gang
