From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for FreeBSD/alpha.
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6194329.ISvWWhEMjK@ralph.baldwin.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7675575f-d2b8-f898-28d5-57f15935e131@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Tuesday, April 04, 2017 08:55:07 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 04/04/2017 08:44 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I have not reached out to anyone at Debian about GNU/kFreeBSD on Alpha, but
> > I strongly doubt anyone there is actually testing/using that on Alpha since
> > FreeBSD removed alpha support so long ago. The existing images for
> > kFreeBSD only include support for amd64 and i386.
>
> That's correct. I don't even know whether there ever actually was a Debian
> kFreeBSD/alpha port in existence. However, Debian on Linux/alpha still works
> and we're still providing up-to-date packages. So, please don't drop the
> Linux/alpha target from GDB.
>
> In general, currently not bootstrapped targets can be automatically bootstrapped
> in Debian with the help of the rebootstrap project [1]. So, we can potentially
> support anything the toolchain/glibc/kernel supports.
To be clear, the patchset only affects kFreeBSD with Alpha, it does not
remove support for using the Linux kernel with Debian on Alpha.
--
John Baldwin
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-04 18:11 John Baldwin
2017-04-04 18:44 ` John Baldwin
2017-04-04 18:55 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2017-04-04 19:08 ` John Baldwin [this message]
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