From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 81377 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2019 18:18:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 81358 invoked by uid 89); 2 Apr 2019 18:18:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=role, sk:respons X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:18:20 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74B9830FE5B2; Tue, 2 Apr 2019 18:18:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn-112-12.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.112.12]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C213C6155F; Tue, 2 Apr 2019 18:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Obsolete Cell Broadband Engine SPU targets To: Eric Gallager , Ulrich Weigand Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, dje.gcc@gmail.com, trevor_smigiel@playstation.sony.com References: <20190402094614.8550AD802C5@oc3748833570.ibm.com> From: Jeff Law Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-04/txt/msg00033.txt.bz2 On 4/2/19 10:49 AM, Eric Gallager wrote: > On 4/2/19, Ulrich Weigand wrote: >> Hello, >> >> the spu-elf target in GCC supports generating code for the SPU processors >> of the Cell Broadband Engine; it has been part of upstream GCC since 2008. >> >> However, at this point I believe this target is no longer in use: >> - There is no supported Cell/B.E. hardware any more. > > Wait, SPU includes the Playstation 3, right? I'm pretty sure there are > still plenty of PS3s in use out there... AFAIK my university (GWU) is > still running its PS3 supercomputer cluster... (I'd have to check to > make sure...) Even if there's potentially still users out there, if there's no maintainer to support the target, then it should be deprecated. Of course, you could always step into that role. I'm sure Ulrich could fill you in on the responsibilities. jeff