Re: [PATCH 1/8] build-system: clean up TCG/TCI configury

[John David Anglin]

On 2021-01-13 8:42 a.m., Helge Deller wrote:
>>> ia64 is a dead host architecture and doesn't exist in any OS distro that
>>> we target anymore, so I don't think we need to consider it.
> I have no opinion about ia64.
>
>>> Likewise parisc/hppa doesn't seem exist in Debian since Squeeze, so I
>>> think we can rule that out too.
> Can we please keep parisc/hppa.
> It's not an official platform any longer, but quite active in the
> "unstable" debian-ports repository:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid
>
>>> Only sh4 still seems to be supported in Debian. I expect the primary
>>> need there is for sh4 guest support rather than sh4 host support.
> Same as for hppa/parisc, sh4 is in debian-ports too.
The status of the platforms in debian-ports is here:
https://www.ports.debian.org/archive
https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=hppa&suite=sid

There is some effort to maintain all the platforms in debian-ports.  The hppa 
platform is also still
in gentoo, and one or two bsd distros.

Regards,
Dave

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John David Anglin  dave.anglin@bell.net