From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 42433 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2017 18:14:09 -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 42418 invoked by uid 89); 4 Dec 2017 18:14:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=ground X-HELO: EUR01-VE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com Authentication-Results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=cmetcalf@mellanox.com; Subject: Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc To: Adhemerval Zanella , libc-alpha@sourceware.org Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz References: <1a57be83-3349-5450-ee4f-d2a33569a728@mellanox.com> <995aac59-2f9d-2a6a-2b5c-b827410ad295@physik.fu-berlin.de> <1d4c3707-ff44-15b2-9eb4-ec5174e3f007@physik.fu-berlin.de> <15306eb4-759b-1dbf-d605-bfa62e9fdaf3@linaro.org> From: Chris Metcalf Message-ID: <332ee880-e770-eff9-66cb-ff41a2b649bf@mellanox.com> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:14:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; 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It > already has kernel ABI incompatibilities (for instance ca768667d873 fix on > linux and some atomic unsupported operations that broke the build on > recent glibc fixes). I think we could at least remove old tilepro > support. That's certainly a plausible middle ground.   Of course, tilepro support is only 30 files (about half of which are just *.abilist files) out of 204 total files for tile support, so the tree won't benefit as much from that cleanup. But we have heard some support for tilegx, and none for tilepro, so maybe that's a plausible position to land, particularly given the Debian interest. For what it's worth, what I've heard from kernel maintainers suggests that just marking tile as "Orphan" in the MAINTAINERS file and not deleting any of the existing code is the right position in that community. -- Chris Metcalf, Mellanox Technologies http://www.mellanox.com