Subject: Death of NetBSD/pc532
To: None <port-pc532@NetBSD.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-pc532
Date: 01/09/2008 23:11:16
Hi folks,

Unfortunately the time for the pc532 port has come to an end.  I'd
managed to keep at least the kernel building and running up until
relatively recently - I'm currently using a 4.99.1 kernel - but lack of
a toolchain (no ns32k support in gcc4) and lack of ELF (from a NetBSD
perspective) mean that it was an uphill battle.

I've removed pc532 support from the source tree.  For reference, I've
included the list of affected files and directories below.  These were
tagged with the "pc532-eol-2008" tag.

Phil and I are both hoping for lotto wins or large inheritances to drop
from the sky, but until then so long. :-(

Simon.
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build.sh
common/lib/libc/arch/ns32k
distrib/notes/Makefile
distrib/notes/common/contents
distrib/notes/common/macros
distrib/notes/common/main
distrib/notes/common/sysinst
distrib/notes/pc532
distrib/pc532
distrib/sets/README
distrib/sets/lists/base/md.pc532
distrib/sets/lists/base/mi
distrib/sets/lists/base/rescue.pc532
distrib/sets/lists/comp/md.pc532
distrib/sets/lists/man/mi
distrib/sets/lists/xserver4/md.pc532
distrib/utils/sysinst/Makefile
distrib/utils/sysinst/TODO
distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/pc532
etc/etc.pc532
etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist
gnu/lib/libbfd/arch/ns32k
gnu/lib/libiberty/arch/ns32k
gnu/lib/libopcodes/arch/ns32k
gnu/usr.bin/binutils/common/arch/ns32k
gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gas/arch/ns32k
gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gprof/arch/ns32k
gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/arch/ns32k
gnu/usr.bin/send-pr/categories
lib/libc/arch/ns32k
lib/libc/compat/arch/ns32k
lib/libc/gen/execl.c
lib/libc/gen/execle.c
lib/libc/gen/execlp.c
lib/libkvm/kvm_ns32k.c  
libexec/ld.aout_so/arch/ns32k
rescue/Makefile
rescue/list.bim  
sbin/Makefile  
sbin/bim
share/man/man0/intros
share/man/man4/Makefile 
share/man/man4/ddb.4
share/man/man4/man4.pc532
share/man/man7/hier.7
share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8
share/man/man9/kauth.9
share/mk/bsd.README
share/mk/bsd.endian.mk
share/mk/bsd.lib.mk
share/mk/bsd.own.mk
share/mk/bsd.sys.mk
share/mk/sys.mk
sys/arch/Makefile
sys/arch/README
sys/arch/pc532
sys/dev/DEVNAMES
sys/lib/libkern/Makefile
sys/lib/libkern/arch/ns32k
tools/headerlist