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Re: Remove tilegx port
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:26:19 -0600
- Subject: Re: Remove tilegx port
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On 04/27/2018 09:36 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Since tile support has been removed from the Linux kernel for 4.17,
> this patch removes the (unmaintained) port to tilegx from glibc (the
> tilepro support having been previously removed). This reflects the
> general principle that a glibc port needs upstream support for the
> architecture in all the components it build-depends on (so binutils,
> GCC and the Linux kernel, for the normal case of a port supporting the
> Linux kernel but no other OS), in order to be maintainable.
>
> Apart from removal of sysdeps/tile and sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile
> (omitted from the diffs below), there are updates to various comments
> referencing tile for which removal of those references seemed
> appropriate. The configuration is removed from README and from
> build-many-glibcs.py. contrib.texi keeps mention of removed
> contributions, but I updated Chris Metcalf's entry to reflect that he
> also contributed the non-removed support for the generic Linux kernel
> syscall interface. __ASSUME_FADVISE64_64_NO_ALIGN support is removed,
> as it was only used by tile.
Given tilegx/tilepro removal from the kernel and glibc, should we go
ahead and deprecate them in GCC? The only tilegx/tilepro configurations
are -linux.
Jeff