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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:57:02 -0300
From:      Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deprecate/remove riscv64sf
Message-ID:  <d29ebd56-fd48-b6d8-fae3-d9094bf5c444@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <629bf85d-4d48-17f5-cb26-dfd29f7e6ff7@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <629bf85d-4d48-17f5-cb26-dfd29f7e6ff7@FreeBSD.org>

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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



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