From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54627 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2017 19:08:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 54610 invoked by uid 89); 4 Apr 2017 19:08:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*fu-berlin.de, images X-HELO: mail.baldwin.cx Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (HELO mail.baldwin.cx) (96.47.65.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:08:04 +0000 Received: from ralph.baldwin.cx (c-73-231-226-104.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.231.226.104]) by mail.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 379FD10A7DB; Tue, 4 Apr 2017 15:08:04 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for FreeBSD/alpha. Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:08:00 -0000 Message-ID: <6194329.ISvWWhEMjK@ralph.baldwin.cx> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (FreeBSD/11.0-STABLE; KDE/4.14.10; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <7675575f-d2b8-f898-28d5-57f15935e131@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <20170404181008.6978-1-jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1861651.fu0D0FxiPB@ralph.baldwin.cx> <7675575f-d2b8-f898-28d5-57f15935e131@physik.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-04/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 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