Remove support for the historic Intel 80386

Joel Sherrill joel at rtems.org
Thu Apr 26 22:47:31 UTC 2018


On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:34 PM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

> On 25/04/2018 23:48, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >
> > To answer your m68k question...I can't find the post to gcc@ but there
> are only
> > a handful
> > of ports using the cc and that is a barrier to future changes. The m68k,
> v850,
> > and a few
> > others are at risk until the port is updated to use more modern gcc
> internals.
> > It was
> > discussed that if these ports are not updated, they will be deprecated.
> >
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00089.html


Thanks! We need to watch this topic because the mc68040 is more important
than the mc68060 as a cutoff point. We may also want to consider what to
do about 6830x and cpu32 variants. If we want those to stay, that may
increase
the cores needed a lot. That's effectively keeping the 68000 and 68020.



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> Chris
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