Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc | From | John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <> | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2018 17:06:24 +0100 |
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On 03/08/2018 04:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I originally helped get tile, blackfin, metag, unicore32 and score into > the kernel, and it's always sad to see them go away after all the work > that was put into making them work. Out of the above, tile was > probably the best supported, and the most ambitious architecture > design, but in the end it seems it is just as dead as the others, so > I'll now add a patch to remove it along with the others in linux-4.17.
Out of curiosity: Is there any reason why the removal of tilegx is now being rushed? Did any of the policies regarding architectures in the kernel change? I had the impression that architectures could previously stay unmaintained for a while before being removed.
> - sh3/sh4 looked like they would get revived a few years ago > for the j-core project. The 2015 roadmap on > http://j-core.org/roadmap.html had ambitious plans for > an sh3 compatible core in 2017 and an sh4 compatible one > in 2018. However, not much has happened at all since 2016, > and now the website is down as well. You might want to > contact the j-core developers for clarification. > I suspect this has also become a victim of the RISC-V > success.
Well, that's quite a bummer. I don't know what Rich Felker's and Rob Landley's plans now are. Rich told that he would be doing paid SH work again in the upcoming weeks. I even sent him and Rob SH4 hardware to support their efforts.
I have personally invested a lot of work into the SH port over the past three years in Debian and I was involved fixing many bugs and as a result, the port is quite usable. It would be really disappointing to see it being removed all of a sudden :(.
I will get in touch with Rich and Rob to figure out what's going on.
Adrian
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