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Re: Release 2.21 - rough schedule
Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 04:48:07PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 12:29 +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
>> > arm-aout arm-coff arm-epoc-pe arm-linux arm-netbsdelf arm-none-eabi arm-nto arm-pe arm-symbianelf arm-vxworks arm-wince-pe
>>
>> So arm-linux isn't very interesting these days, and nor is arm-aout
>> (which I'm surprised we still claim to support at all). But
>
> Deprecate it. If ARM maintainers aren't interested in a target it's
> likely that users are better served by staying with an older version
> of binutils.
Talking about deprecation, I wonder if anyone uses the non-ELF MIPS
ports with up-to-date binutils? mips-ecoff has had terrible testresults
for a while, but I've no idea whether the failures are benign.
Richard