On April 27, 2018 7:26:19 PM GMT+02:00, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >On 04/27/2018 09:36 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: >> Since tile support has been removed from the Linux kernel for 4.17, >> this patch removes the (unmaintained) port to tilegx from glibc (the >> tilepro support having been previously removed). This reflects the >> general principle that a glibc port needs upstream support for the >> architecture in all the components it build-depends on (so binutils, >> GCC and the Linux kernel, for the normal case of a port supporting >the >> Linux kernel but no other OS), in order to be maintainable. >> >> Apart from removal of sysdeps/tile and sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile >> (omitted from the diffs below), there are updates to various comments >> referencing tile for which removal of those references seemed >> appropriate. The configuration is removed from README and from >> build-many-glibcs.py. contrib.texi keeps mention of removed >> contributions, but I updated Chris Metcalf's entry to reflect that he >> also contributed the non-removed support for the generic Linux kernel >> syscall interface. __ASSUME_FADVISE64_64_NO_ALIGN support is >removed, >> as it was only used by tile. >Given tilegx/tilepro removal from the kernel and glibc, should we go >ahead and deprecate them in GCC? The only tilegx/tilepro >configurations >are -linux.
Makes sense to me. Let's deprecate it for GCC 8 and remove from trunk. Richard. >Jeff
