On Sep 17, 2012, at 5:18 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:51:33AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> Hi, > Hi Aurelien, > >> It seems that the powerpcspe port hasn't seen an upload since the >> beginning of the year, with the consequence that less than 30% of the >> packages are now up to date. What is the status of this port? > > I tried to keep the port a live in my spare time but gave up because they were > too many changes. > >> Are there >> still people working on it? > > I am not. Kyle left Boeing and the other people there seem not to continue his > work. > >> using it? > > I am getting mails from time to time "how can I help with the port I need new > packages" or something like that but after I tell what there is to do I don't > hear anything anymore. P2020 is still used in new designs and I don't know if > still FSL recommends it. The successor CPUs in this category (post P2020 that > is P2041, P4xxx, …) have the e500mc core (instead of e500) which supports the > "normal" FPU which can not make use of the port. > > If you need to space and nobody is stepping up to maintain the port then I > guess nobody will complain :)
Freescale still sells numerous SoCs that would utilize this port. (8548, P2020, P102x, P1010, etc.). So if its not impacting anyone would be useful to keep it around. - k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/41a9528f-86b7-45ea-a6fc-e92a29fa8...@kernel.crashing.org
