From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752222AbeB1I7h (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2018 03:59:37 -0500 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:40258 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752175AbeB1I7c (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2018 03:59:32 -0500 Subject: Re: Removing architectures without upstream gcc support To: Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Max Filippov , linux-arch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Richard Kuo , "open list:QUALCOMM HEXAGON..." , Chen Liqin , Lennox Wu , Guan Xuetao , Guenter Roeck , Al Viro , James Hogan , "open list:METAG ARCHITECTURE" , Jonas Bonn , Stefan Kristiansson , Stafford Horne , openrisc@lists.librecores.org, David Howells , metcalf@alum.mit.edu References: <20180222160217.GA18243@infradead.org> <20180222180420.GA17956@infradead.org> From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: <6357df10-c3bd-587f-69d1-efb1855aaf85@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:59:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/23/2018 12:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > That makes more sense, yes. I'm still unsure about this one though. Chris in > fact made the suggestion to remove the architecture from both glibc and kernel > as with his departure from Mellanox there is nobody left from to maintain it. > > I suggested keeping it as 'Orphaned' for the time being, given that the port > is still in a good shape, much better than many other ports. > > The known customers that sold TileGX based appliances (Cisco, Brocade, > Checkpoint, Mikrotik, ...) tend to have long support cycles, and there have > been attempts at getting Debian, OpenWRT and Centos distro support > at least a few years ago. Note that there is tilegx-*-linux-gnu and tilepro-*-linux-gnu. Only the latter was removed from glibc. Thanks, Florian