On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 14:47 -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi
>
> Over at RTEMS, we were discussing ports to deprecate/obsolete
> and the SH seems to be on everyone's candidate list. I can't seem
> to find any gcc test results sh-unknown-elf since 2009 and none
> for sh-rtems. I know I posted some but when, I can't say. But the
> new mailing list setup may be messing that up. I expected more
> recent results.
>
> (1) Is my search right? Have there been no test results in 10 years?
>
> (2) Is the toolchain in jeopardy?
>
> (3) I know there was an effort to do an open implementation with
> j-core.org but there is no News or download item newer than 2016.
> Is this architecture effectively dead except for legacy hardware out
> in the field (Sega?)
>
> I'm leaning to RTEMS dropping support for the SH after we branch
> a release and wondering if the GCC community knows anything that
> I don't.
I'm not aware of the SH toolchain being in any jeopardy.
I'm doing weekly bootstrap (yes, really) & regression tests for {sh4,sh4eb}-
linux-gnu and daily builds of {sh3,sh3b}-linux-gnu. See
http://gcc.gnu.org/jenkins
The Linux kernel is currently broken, but I suspect it's a transient issue as it
was fine until a week ago -- my tester usually builds the kernel too, but that's
been temporarily disabled for SH targets.
jeff
