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Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>
- Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, linux-arch <linux-arch at vger dot kernel dot org>, <metcalf at alum dot mit dot edu>, Henrik Grindal Bakken <hgb at ifi dot uio dot no>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, Helmut Grohne <helmutg at debian dot org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 16:00:50 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc
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On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Do you have any updates on this? A related question has come up
> for the kernel, as are in the process of removing a number of architectures,
> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/748074/119aaf0d62b3e6c1/ or
> see https://lwn.net/Articles/748074/ for a nice summary.
No-one has posted glibc test results for 2.27 or 2.26, despite the prior
claims of interest in keeping the glibc port. If the kernel port is
removed, my assumption is that we should remove the glibc port at that
point (not keep it around for possible use with older kernels).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com