From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 59844 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2018 18:16:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 59832 invoked by uid 89); 7 Mar 2018 18:16:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=HCc:D*fu-berlin.de, interest X-HELO: isilmar-4.linta.de Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:16:00 -0000 From: Helmut Grohne To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , GNU C Library , linux-arch , metcalf@alum.mit.edu, Henrik Grindal Bakken , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc Message-ID: <20180307181407.GA24350@alf.mars> Mail-Followup-To: Helmut Grohne , Arnd Bergmann , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , GNU C Library , linux-arch , metcalf@alum.mit.edu, Henrik Grindal Bakken , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1a57be83-3349-5450-ee4f-d2a33569a728@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 04:39:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > - Helmut Grohne has done the work to add tile-gx to debian > rebootstrap, and send several patches, as seen in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823167 > However, I could find no information on this actually > being turned into a full port, or anyone still actively involved > in it. The Debian rebootstrap page at > https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap > mentions lots of other architectures, but not this one. I happened help tilegx, because Adrian found someone with hw and tilegx appeared to be very well maintained upstream. Very little needed to be done to make it work in Debian. The patches I sent were pretty generic and addressed issues that most ports face. What is there allows constructing most of an essential package set and (unlike a number of other architectures) bootstrapping tilegx works fairly well. Debian has a number of source-only ports and tilegx is now one of them. That said, nobody has taken up the work to proceed a native bootstrap. Like with nios2, progress is stalled, because the tooling for fully automating the native phase is missing. In any case, I won't be able to fix binutils/gcc/glibc/linux issues with tilegx. So unless someone steps up to do that work, I won't object to dropping it. It would be sad to see tilegx go, but it certainly isn't my core interest either. I'd appreciate a note if it gets dropped from any of these, because I'd clean up outstanding bug reports then. The reverse is also true: If you want to see an new architecture in Debian, I also appreciate an early conversation to avoid duplicating work. Hope this helps Helmut