Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Removing architectures without upstream gcc support | From | Florian Weimer <> | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:59:24 +0100 |
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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
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