Re: Branch created: gcc-3_3-e500-branch

[Kumar Gala <kumar dot gala at motorola dot com>]

Zach,

Thanks for the relpy.

Mark, Geoff, David

What is your feeling of allowing this branch to be merged back into the 
3.3 line?  I know we have a number of customers that this would greatly 
facilitate.

Thanks

- kumar

On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 11:38 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@motorola.com> writes:
>
> > Zach, Aldy
> >
> > What's the state of the gcc-3_3-e500-branch?
>
> It works, as far as I know.  I need to do another merge from the 3.3
> release branch now that GCC 3.3.0 has officially been shipped.  I'm
> also considering applying David Edelsohn's patches for the 440 chip;
> it's not strictly relevant to the e500, but my clients want it.
>
> > Is it feasible to merge it back into 3.3 so that 3.3.1 has fully
> > working e500 support?
>
> That's a question you should be asking the PowerPC port maintainers
> and the release manager, not either of us.  I would like to see it
> happen; however, some of the changes I had to backport could be seen
> as risky, such as the 3.4 genautomata.c (although not any of the rest
> of the scheduler).
>
> zw