Re: Stepping up as maintainer for ia64

[Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>]

> Am 07.03.2024 um 19:09 schrieb René Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>:
> 
> Hey there,
> 
> I saw the deprecation of ia64*-*-* scrolling by [1].
> 
> Which surprised me, as (minor bugs aside) gcc ia64*-*-linux just works for us and
> we still actively support it as part of our T2 System Development Environment [2].
> 
> For ia64 we are currently a team of three and also keep maintaining linux-kernel and
> glibc git trees with ia64 restored and hope to bring back ia64 to linux upstream the
> coming months as promised. [3]
> 
> Despite popular believe ia64 actually just works for all those projects and we already
> fixed the few minor bugs we could find or reproduce.
> 
> Last week I also already patched and tested enabling LRA for ia64 in gcc [4] and could
> -without any regression- compile a full ia64 T2/Linux release ISO that boots and runs
> including an X desktop and Gtk applications. That was of course even with the latest
> linux kernel and glibc versions with ia64 support restored respectively.
> 
> Given there are currently no other volunteers, I therefore with this email step up and
> offer to become ia64 maintainer for GCC to keep the code compiling, tested and
> un-deprecated for the next years and releases to come.

You’re welcome - we look forward to LRA enablement with ia64 and for it to get an
active maintainer.  Note maintainers are appointed by the Steering Committee.

If I read you correctly you’d keep the ia64-Linux port alive but the other sub-architectures like the hpux port can remain deprecated?

Thanks,
Richard 

> Thank you so much,
>    René Rebe
> 
> [1] https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-bugs/bug-90785-4-X7KYh6SLIg@http.gcc.gnu.org%2Fbugzilla%2F/T/
> [2] https://t2sde.org/#news-2023-12-05
> [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ia64/CAHk-=whFLZ67ffzt1juryCYcYz6eL_XjQF8WucDzwUR5H65+rA@mail.gmail.com/
> [4] https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/develop/gcc/ia64-lra-impl.patch
> 
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