Re: PowerPC SPE maintainership (was Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*)

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 11:30:59AM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2017, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> > My current patches have powerpc*-*-*spe* for the powerpcspe port.
> > Maybe it should also allow powerpcspe-*-*?  If people are willing
> > to change the target triple they use.
> 
> In that case, either config.sub or config.gcc could handle the mapping.

For powerpc*-*-*spe* in config.gcc, for powerpcspe-*-* in config.sub,
yes.  Which is also why the latter is a larger change: all other
packages would see it as a separate arch, too; which might make it a
non-starter.

> > > Some testcases will be applicable to both ports, some to only one.
> > 
> > Yeah; but we can sort that out later, no change is needed as long as
> > the new port is essentially a copy of rs6000 :-)
> 
> Presumably the SPE port maintainers will want to clean up the SPE port 
> soon so it's not simply a copy of rs6000 (removing all the options, ABI 
> variants etc. not applicable to SPE-supporting processors).

Yes, and vice-versa.  Of course the powerpcspe port can remove a lot
more (VMX, VSX, 64-bit!)

But these are the easy parts :-)


Segher