From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C54A1386F43E for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 00:41:59 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org C54A1386F43E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=physik.fu-berlin.de Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=glaubitz@zedat.fu-berlin.de Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1l6jlP-002DdN-QW; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 01:41:51 +0100 Received: from p5b13a4ea.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([91.19.164.234] helo=[192.168.178.139]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (envelope-from ) id 1l6jlP-0027OU-Kf; Tue, 02 Feb 2021 01:41:51 +0100 Subject: Re: RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34 To: Paul Eggert , Florian Weimer Cc: GNU C Library , debian-ia64@lists.debian.org, Matt Turner , Sergei Trofimovich References: <87r1lzoidk.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Message-ID: <66284d2d-ee9d-867e-f38f-1057ad005dfc@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 01:41:50 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-Originating-IP: 91.19.164.234 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_NUMSUBJECT, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:42:01 -0000 Hello! On 2/2/21 12:51 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > I just now reviewed that thread, and in it Adhemerval mentioned binutils' ia64 > support as an argument for sticking with ia64 in glibc. If binutils has deprecated, > that argument goes away. I think Sergei Trofimovich fixed some issues in the ia64 binutils after it was announced the code was in danger. He is one of the Gentoo developers. > That thread also mentioned that Jason Duerstock volunteered in July 2019 to be the ia64 > maintainer for GCC. However, although he submitted copyright paperwork I don't see any > commits by him in GCC master, and the debian-ia64@lists.debian.org archive contains no > email from him since then, neither of which is a good sign. I also have not heard from Jason for a while. I can try to contact him and find out what the status is. > I'll cc this email to debian-ia64 to see if anyone there has further info re GCC on ia64. We should also pull in the Gentoo ia64 maintainers which I have done now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913