Suggest obsoleting some of the HPPA ports

Suggest obsoleting some of the HPPA ports

[Joel Brobecker]

hello,

I am currently looking at the list of "supported" targets and found
several ones that I won't be able to convert nor support: 
  - hppa*-*-bsd*
  - hppa*-*-pro*
  - hppa*-*-osf*

Unless somebody else with access to the appropriate machines is willing
to undertake the conversion for these targets, I suggest we obsolete
them.

This will leave us with the following triplets:

  - (target) - hppa*64*-*-hpux11*
             - hppa*-*-hpux*
             - hppa*-*-hiux*           (anybody knows what this is?)

  - (host)   - hppa*-*-hiux*
             - hppa*-*-hpux10.20
             - hppa*64*-*-hpux11*
             - hppa*-*-hpux11*
             - hppa*-*-hpux*

ACT does not have a system where hppa64 can be supported, so I am using
a machine under the HP/Compaq program. These machines come with a pretty
bare OS, and are a bit of a pain to use, but it would be a shame to lose
the hppa64 target. I think I've finally set up an environment where I
can build and test GDB there, but no CVS :-(. Anybody willing to take
over the conversion of this target would really be welcome... Otherwise,
I'll do the conversion too.

As for the proposal to obsolete the hppa-*-*(bsd|pro|osf)*
hosts/targets, this would allow us to get rid of the following files in
the config/pa directory:

    BSD: hppabsd.mt
         tm-hppab.h

         hppabsd.mh
         nm-hppab.h
         xm-hppab.h
         hppab-nat.c

    PRO: hppapro.mt
         tm-pro.h
         op50-rom.c
         w89k-rom.c

    OSF: hppaosf.mt
         tm-hppao.h

         hppaosf.mh
         nm-hppao.h
         hppam3-nat.c

There are some other files that don't seem to be used, so I'm thinking
of deleting them:

         hpux1020.mt
         hpux11.mt
         hpux11w.mt

-- 
Joel

Re: Suggest obsoleting some of the HPPA ports

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:31:51PM -0800, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I am currently looking at the list of "supported" targets and found
> several ones that I won't be able to convert nor support: 
>   - hppa*-*-bsd*
>   - hppa*-*-pro*
>   - hppa*-*-osf*
> 
> Unless somebody else with access to the appropriate machines is willing
> to undertake the conversion for these targets, I suggest we obsolete
> them.

Certainly no objections from me!  We haven't had build reports for any
of these in the last year at least, and in my humble opinion we don't
need to wait a release cycle to lose them.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Suggest obsoleting some of the HPPA ports

[Jason R Thorpe]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:39:38PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

 > Certainly no objections from me!  We haven't had build reports for any
 > of these in the last year at least, and in my humble opinion we don't
 > need to wait a release cycle to lose them.

Yah, seconded.  Eventually I'm going to have to do gdb support
for hppa-netbsd, and a more maintainable hppa port will be a
good start :-)

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>

Re: Suggest obsoleting some of the HPPA ports

[Andrew Cagney]

Just note:

http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdbint_15.html#SEC134

Right now things are somewhat in limbo.  You'll need to wait until 5.3 
is out (and I've blown away the currently obsolete code) before starting 
with this new round.

have fun!
Andrew