On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 12:50 +0300, Alex Sadovsky wrote: > It's slightly off-topic but I wonder whether this ongoing deprecation > of ARMv4 and ARMv5 (first in GCC, then in U-Boot) really simplifies > anything at all. > There are tons of devices that are still working good and there are > even ARMv5-based MCUs that are still produced (such as CH561 > manufactured by WCH).
Please note that as of today Marvell is also still producing them PXAs which are not to go end-of-life before later next year I believe. > IMHO it makes sense to drop only the XScale-specific tuning first and > to treat PXA (and similar CPUs) as a more generic armv5te. I wonder > what to do when GCC drops ARMv5 completely... I believe it was only an issue with early gcc 8 but does work just fine again with later 8.2 or 8.3 versions. However, what is more concerning to me is that in today's convoluted moloch known as U-Boot there may simply not be any space any more for something truly embedded but somewhat limited like PXA based hardware. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot