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Re: Remove sparcv8 support
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:56:24 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Remove sparcv8 support
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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:47:30 -0200
> The sparcv8 build is broken since GLIBC 2.23 due the new pthread
> barrier implementation [1] and since then there is no thread or
> interest on fixing it (Torvald has suggested some options on
> 2.23 release thread).
It's not lack of interest, it's lack of time.