From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 41047 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2018 09:01:33 -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 41031 invoked by uid 89); 5 Jan 2018 09:01:33 -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=cisco, Cisco, H*r:Unknown, H*Ad:D*no X-HELO: blaine.gmane.org To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org From: Henrik Grindal Bakken Subject: Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 09:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <1a57be83-3349-5450-ee4f-d2a33569a728@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-SW-Source: 2018-01/txt/msg00155.txt.bz2 Chris Metcalf writes: > The tile architecture was introduced to glibc in 2011 and first > appeared in glibc 2.15. The chip family of TILEPro and TILE-Gx was > developed by Tilera, which was eventually acquired by Mellanox. Now > at Mellanox we are developing new chips based on the ARM64 > architecture; our last TILE-Gx chip (the Gx72) was released in 2013, > and our customers using the tile architecture products are now all in > maintenance mode, as far as we know, and not looking to upgrade their > software to newer open-source releases. At Cisco, we use TILE-Gx in current products, and we (try to) keep up to date with new releases of both gcc and glibc (sadly not the kernel, which has a large vendor patch). We'd love to see the architecture still being supported, although I don't think it would be the end of the world if it didn't. > If there is any desire to continue to support the tile architecture in > glibc, I'm happy to hand off to someone else as maintainer. I don't we have anyone capable of stepping up as maintainer, though. -- Henrik Grindal Bakken PGP ID: 8D436E52 Fingerprint: 131D 9590 F0CF 47EF 7963 02AF 9236 D25A 8D43 6E52