Hi Masahiro-san, On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > > > 2015-05-11 17:40 GMT+09:00 Phil Edworthy <phil.edwor...@renesas.com>: >> Hi Joe, >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: U-Boot [mailto:u-boot-boun...@lists.denx.de] On Behalf Of Joe >>> Hershberger >>> Sent: 10 May 2015 21:23 >>> To: u-boot@lists.denx.de >>> Cc: Rob Herring; Thierry Reding; Stephen Warren; Joe Hershberger; Hisashi >>> Nakamura; Masahiro Yamada; Tom Rini; York Sun; Stefan Roese >>> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] Remove sh boards that we have no tool-chain >>> for. >>> >>> >>> These 6 boards are the last that cannot be built with a public >>> configuration of tool-chains. Remove them. This includes the SH2 and SH3 >>> cpus, which are the actual cause for not being able to build these >>> boards. >> I haven't been keeping an eye on the ml, so didn't see the mails about this. >> For the sh2a boards, the last toolchain I used was an old CodeSourcery one >> from 2011 that can be downloaded from >> http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/gnu_toolchain/sh-uclinux/ >> >>> They can always be added back if the situation changes. >> I haven't built any sh2a targets for years and I suspect no one else has >> either, sh3 is probably even less used. Personally, I think it makes sense >> to remove all support for sh2a and sh3 now. > > > I attended an interesting talk at LinuxCon Japan 2015. > > I realized there is on-going movement to leverage patent-free sh2 processor. > > Visit this for the abstract: > http://lccojapan2015.sched.org/event/860288ccda595208a5d7337d31c6075c?iframe=no&w=i:0;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.VXLwxlXtlBd > > > I recommend to keep sh2 support for U-Boot now and keep an eye on this > activity. > > > Anyway, you can build all the sh2 boards with the sourcery toolchain, > so your motivation to delete them is lost.
Sounds good. -Joe _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot