From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David O'Brien" To: Philip Blundell Cc: Alan Modra , binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: GAS copyright update Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000504120738.B2426@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20000503124929.A98199@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000504105011.C1813@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000504113649.A2426@dragon.nuxi.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-05/msg00114.html On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 07:44:33PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: > We can certainly discuss it. If you can convince me that backporting > the IA-64 parts would not destabilise any other areas of code then we > could perhaps consider it for some subsequent release on the 2.10 > branch. Thank you. > Can't you use a different source base for different architectures? Unfortunately not easily as it complicates our build procedure. > This sort of situation will always happen - wherever you draw the > cut-off point for a release, there are going to be some features left > out. Very true. Typically the BSD philosophy is to only use released versions of toolchain bits. Sacrificing features for tested stability. > If you felt that your life would be made noticeably and needlessly more > miserable by not having IA-64 in 2.10 the time to speak out was back in > March when the release branch was being created, not now when we are > trying to put the finishing touches to the release. I sincerely apologize for that. I just realized that there was a 2.10 branch and a release was nearing. I queried the list about any upcoming releases back in January and was told by Ian there were no plans. I have only been mandated to upgrade the FreeBSD toolchain w/in the past month. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com)