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Re: Stepping down
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Kaz Kojima <kkojima at rr dot iij4u dot or dot jp>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:58:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: Stepping down
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- Bcc: rob at landley dot net
- References: <20150609 dot 075619 dot 135637161 dot kkojima at rr dot iij4u dot or dot jp> <20150611001026 dot 040F02C3C1B at topped-with-meat dot com>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:10:25PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Thanks for all your contributions over the years, Kaz. IMHO you have
> been an excellent machine maintainer for Linux/SH. You've most
> certainly been an excellent contributor to libc in other ways, and for
> far longer than most people.
>
> Do you know of anyone else who might step forward to maintain the SH
> port? Are there Linux distributions that build for SH?
>
> If it has no maintainer but continues to build fine in some distro,
> then that's fine. But if either it becomes broken and nobody is
> signed on to fix it, or we have no reason to think anyone has actually
> built it lately, then we'll want to remove it from the tree.
Did you see this?
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/647636/fdb277e9550d7141/
So far their work is focused on sh2/nommu, which glibc probably
doesn't support, but keeping/restoring superh as a
maintained/supported platform at the kernel and toolchain levels is
important and they might have ideas for someone to take on the glibc
port maintainership.
Rich