On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > I think we should remove support the following ports: > - IRIX > - UnixWare > - Tru64 > > Neither of those are relevant.
Seems reasonable. > I think we should remove support for the following architectures: > - VAX Agreed. > - univel (s_lock support remaining) > - sinix (s_lock support remaining) > - sun3 (I think it's just s_lock support remaining) > - natsemi 32k I don't know enough about these, which doesn't bode well for them. > - superH SuperH isn't dead, but it is only used for very small embedded systems, I think (mostly microcontrollers). So maybe. > - ALPHA (big pain in the ass to get right, nobody uses it anymore) Yes, for many years now ALPHA has only been useful as a way of illustrating how bad it's possible for CPU memory operation reordering considerations to get. So I quite agree. > - m86k (doesn't have a useable CAS on later iterations like coldfire) It does seem like Motorola 68k is vanishingly close to dead. > - M32R (no userspace CAS afaics) > - mips for anything but gcc > 4.4, using gcc's atomics support > - s390 for anything but gcc > 4.4, using gcc's atomics support > - 32bit/<v9 sparc (doesn't have proper atomics, old) Not so sure about these. > Possibly: > - all mips > - PA-RISC. I think Tom was the remaining user there? Maybe just !gcc. I think we should think hard about removing support for MIPS. A lot of Chinese chip manufacturers have licensed MIPS technology in just the last couple of years, so there is plenty of it out there; I'd be slightly concerned that the proposed restrictions on MIPS would be onerous. Much of this is the kind of hardware that a person might plausibly want to run Postgres on. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
