Re: Deprecate/remove riscv64sf

In reply to: John Baldwin : "Deprecate/remove riscv64sf"
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From: Mitchell Horne <mhorne_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:57:02 UTC

On 3/29/23 15:17, John Baldwin wrote:
> Is anyone using riscv64sf?  All of the existing RISC-V boards include 
> hard-float
> support as well as QEMU.  The FPGA cores we use at Cambridge also all 
> support
> hard-float.  My understanding is that glibc doesn't bother supporting 
> soft-float
> on RV64.  If no one is using it (and has no plans to use it), then I 
> propose
> we drop it in 14.0 and save one more buildworld from make tinderbox.
> 

Seems great to me. Personally I have not done anything to build, test, 
or otherwise verify the functionality of the riscv64sf variant in years. 
Also I do not recall any questions or interest in it from users or devs 
alike.

Cheers,
Mitchell