Re: Deprecating and removing old targets

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 09/14/2016 10:46 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On 9/14/2016 10:18 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> >     > On 12/09/16 08:37, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > after a short discussion at the GNU cauldron 2016, I'd like to hear
> >     > opinion about removing old targets in bfd.
> >     > It is hard to know whether or not they are used, so if you are
> > using an old target please speak up.
> >
> >     Just to be clear, in case anyone reading Tristan email does not know
> >     this, any targets that we do decide to remove would first be added to
> >     the obsolete targets list (in bfd/config.bfd), and only once a major
> >     release has happened (probably 2.28 in this case), would we start
> >     actually removing code.
> >
> > Does that mean I can remove the code for sparc*-*-rtemsaout and
> > sparc-*-lynxos*?  They have been listed as obsolete in config.bfd for a
> > long time.
>
> AFAIK RTEMS has no active targets that are not ELF. Feel free to kill
> sparc*-*-rtemsaout or any target like *-*-rtemscoff* or *-*-rtemsaout*.
>
>
> > It would be nice if we could get rid of the sparc-coff (only used by
> > lynxos AFAIK) an even the sparc-aout (old netBSD, sunos) stuff all at
> > once.  Only ELF sparc targets would remain..
>
> I can't speak for LynxOS but it is a good goal.
LynxOS?  Like as in the one from the early/mid 90s?  IF so, I'd suggest 
dropping it.  It was a horrid piece of junk and I'd be amazed if anyone 
is still using that garbage.

Jeff