toolchain/external: remove Linaro aarch64 BE toolchain

This toolchain is more than 7 years old now, and not maintained anymore.
Let's therefore remove it from Buildroot. There are still some
alternatives in-tree, such as ARM and Bootlin toolchains

Signed-off-by: Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@smile.fr>

Config.in.legacy

@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ endif
 
 comment "Legacy options removed in 2025.11"
 
+config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE
+	bool "Linaro AArch64 BE 2018.05 external toolchain is deprecated"
+	select BR2_LEGACY
+	help
+	  Linaro AArch64 2018.05 BE is no longer maintained and has been
+	  removed from Buildroot.
+
 config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64
 	bool "Linaro AArch64 2018.05 external toolchain is deprecated"
 	select BR2_LEGACY

support/config-fragments/autobuild/linaro-aarch64-be.config

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-BR2_aarch64_be=y
-BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
-BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE=y

support/config-fragments/autobuild/toolchain-configs.csv

@@ -61,5 +61,4 @@ support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-powerpc-internal-full.config,any
 support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-riscv64-full-internal.config,any
 support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-s390x-z13-internal-glibc.config,any
 support/config-fragments/autobuild/br-xtensa-full-internal.config,any
-support/config-fragments/autobuild/linaro-aarch64-be.config,x86
 support/config-fragments/autobuild/linaro-arm.config,x86

toolchain/toolchain-external/Config.in

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-arm-aarch64/Config.in"
 
 # Aarch64 big-endian
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-arm-aarch64-be/Config.in"
-source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be/Config.in"
 
 # ARC
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-synopsys-arc/Config.in"
@@ -106,7 +105,6 @@ source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-arm-aarch64/Config.in.op
 
 # Aarch64 big-endian
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-arm-aarch64-be/Config.in.options"
-source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be/Config.in.options"
 
 # ARC
 source "toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-synopsys-arc/Config.in.options"

toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be/Config.in

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE
-	bool "Linaro AArch64 BE 2018.05"
-	depends on BR2_aarch64_be
-	depends on BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86_64" || BR2_HOSTARCH = "x86"
-	depends on !BR2_ARCH_NEEDS_GCC_AT_LEAST_8
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_SSP
-	select BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_NATIVE_RPC
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_4_10
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FORTRAN
-	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_OPENMP
-	help
-	  Toolchain for the AArch64 Big Endian architecture, from
-	  http://www.linaro.org/engineering/armv8/

toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be/Config.in.options

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-if BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE
-
-config BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_PREFIX
-	default "aarch64_be-linux-gnu"
-
-config BR2_PACKAGE_PROVIDES_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL
-	default "toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be"
-
-endif

toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be.hash

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Locally calculated
-sha256  412da19c1d1bff0f3172bc19fd2c024207d8d716dbe7a8dad4bf9e3d6b71d149  gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-i686_aarch64_be-linux-gnu.tar.xz
-sha256  277c1483f8dbd6007c945ffeb706fa1ba1da8ec1c397cf5cf1e29c25081426e5  gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64_be-linux-gnu.tar.xz

toolchain/toolchain-external/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be/toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be.mk

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-# toolchain-external-linaro-aarch64-be
-#
-################################################################################
-
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_VERSION = 2018.05
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_SITE = https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.3-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_VERSION)/aarch64_be-linux-gnu
-
-ifeq ($(HOSTARCH),x86)
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_SOURCE = gcc-linaro-7.3.1-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_VERSION)-i686_aarch64_be-linux-gnu.tar.xz
-else
-TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_SOURCE = gcc-linaro-7.3.1-$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LINARO_AARCH64_BE_VERSION)-x86_64_aarch64_be-linux-gnu.tar.xz
-endif
-
-$(eval $(toolchain-external-package))