* RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34
@ 2021-02-01 15:05 H.J. Lu
2021-02-01 16:36 ` Florian Weimer
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From: H.J. Lu @ 2021-02-01 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GNU C Library
ia64 support has been obsoleted in binutils 2.36 by
commit 73d0dc162e04036ef4752f2cdc09cbfff8437c22
Author: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 13 14:13:43 2020 +0930
Obsolete ia64
* config.bfd: Obsolete ia64*-*-*.
Should glibc also deprecate ia64 in 2.34?
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* Re: RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34
2021-02-01 15:05 RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34 H.J. Lu
@ 2021-02-01 16:36 ` Florian Weimer
2021-02-01 23:51 ` Paul Eggert
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2021-02-01 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
* H. J. Lu via Libc-alpha:
> ia64 support has been obsoleted in binutils 2.36 by
>
> commit 73d0dc162e04036ef4752f2cdc09cbfff8437c22
> Author: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu Aug 13 14:13:43 2020 +0930
>
> Obsolete ia64
>
> * config.bfd: Obsolete ia64*-*-*.
>
> Should glibc also deprecate ia64 in 2.34?
There's been a related discussion:
[PATCH] NEWS: Deprecate ia64-linux-gnu
<https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122149.html>
Consensus was not to deprecate the architecture, I think. But the
binutils deprecation wasn't mentioned in the discussion.
Thanks,
Florian
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* Re: RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34
2021-02-01 16:36 ` Florian Weimer
@ 2021-02-01 23:51 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-02 0:41 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2021-02-01 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Florian Weimer; +Cc: GNU C Library, debian-ia64
On 2/1/21 8:36 AM, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> [PATCH] NEWS: Deprecate ia64-linux-gnu
> <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122149.html>
>
> Consensus was not to deprecate the architecture, I think. But the
> binutils deprecation wasn't mentioned in the discussion.
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.
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'll cc this email to debian-ia64 to see if anyone there has further
info re GCC on ia64.
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* Re: RFC: Deprecate ia64 in glibc 2.34
2021-02-01 23:51 ` Paul Eggert
@ 2021-02-02 0:41 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz @ 2021-02-02 0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paul Eggert, Florian Weimer
Cc: GNU C Library, debian-ia64, Matt Turner, Sergei Trofimovich
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
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