Re: glibc am33 and cris architectures

[Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 17:09 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> > I've long been out of touch WRT am33, but I finally brought this up
> > within Red Hat folks that are involved with it.
> > 
> > Mark Salter volunteered to contribute the updates he'd worked on, but
> > that had failed to be contributed because I failed to review the TLS
> > support patches for GCC and binutils (sorry)
> > 
> > So, instead of removing the port, I suggest we name Mark maintainer of
> > the am33 port.  Any objections?
> 
> I haven't seen any objections; obviously some pretty large patches will be 
> needed to bring the port up to date, replace the Linuxthreads port by an 
> NPTL port and generally update sysdeps files for several years of libc 
> changes that involve all-targets updates, so they are in sync with the 
> libc versions again.  And then he'll need to keep a watch on libc commits 
> for any that require am33 updates to keep am33 in sync, and make such 
> updates to the port as and when such libc commits are made.
> 

I have patches which add NPTL to glibc 2.9 and I'm in the process of
bringing those forward to the devel head. And yes, going forward I
intend to keep an eye on the glibc devel and add am33 glibc to the
things I regularly build and test.

--Mark