Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 19:28:07 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, toolchain@freebsd.org, Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GCC withdraw Message-ID: <6668F65C-812F-4069-83CE-7F8CF3316527@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130901180350.GA12351@lonesome.com> References: <20130822200902.GG94127@funkthat.com> <201308291344.25562.jhb@freebsd.org> <A981C965-D625-458B-B0AB-171C983AEA42@FreeBSD.org> <201308301041.18874.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130901180350.GA12351@lonesome.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_4D3FE985-F61C-4EEB-9489-02A9A8DA380F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 1 Sep 2013, at 19:03, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > If this is the case, IMHO: I was going to quote the whole mail, but actually this is enough. As I = have already said in this thread, there is no such plan. I repeat, for = those who missed it the first time: On 30 Aug 2013, at 16:11, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > I am not proposing: >=20 > ... >=20 > - To deprecate any architectures >=20 > - To break any architectures If a platform ends up without a working toolchain in a few years and = there is no way (LLVM, recent GCC, heavily patched old GCC, = vendor-supplied toolchain) of building it, then we will have to make the = decision about its future. Whether that means getting the Foundation = and / or some other interested body to pay for someone to work on a = toolchain or dropping support is an issue for stakeholders in the = platform. =20 We will probably have to make this call about at least IA64 in a couple = of years, and possibly some PowerPC and SPARC variants, but it's not a = decision that needs to be made any time soon. I know SemiHalf does a = lot of embedded FreeBSD work with PowerPC and a few people do with = SPARC, so there are definitely people with vested interests in = maintaining those two platforms. I'd honestly be surprised if IA64 is = around in two years (mind you, I've been expecting it to die for the = last five, so I'm willing to be surprised again), but maybe there will = be a lot of cheap second-hand IA64 hardware on the market as all of the = big customers switch to something else reviving interest in the = platform... David --Apple-Mail=_4D3FE985-F61C-4EEB-9489-02A9A8DA380F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSI4c3AAoJEKx65DEEsqId/t0QAK8V0kucd+YxPgwnZbTbQNjf KQyBumy1fB1I8CV6lQEXAZILaFhKTiAKQW6V4UVOxtcQ30+7BJVAyN1zBNZ6Qhra VG9XZZJP0M+n4SLRAGOhhfSuLvLNNg0dD9XDnft8W2kBzyG+pBo36n28wuCzhP8Z WB1ieh2mHQHB3whEKRfNDyFX8Fd3tq+p5Ieh+jqjQk8XEk6M0Ska/D7aqZ024wPE b2UxKIeejn5IV19RrJrturjQCzPPUAw48m/GCmOqO6wSZzHU0EA/WSglfad/dJUg 6EOjWDDsO4b1sprmPG5/bXd+8RXhuUTlgOFAgsJBjtqcqjVxzXmj+68CWUdKVmTl RThtVrDDxFDFvkwjxF1LgichoiJCQWBNZKtPCrmGnleoA0x0PY4qQiC5mFpWKSGY VaV3m6nTh6jizY9fPA3SAtEy/BMu7PAj1XEUAhTLB51a+yGRVVIzABEsNzbJukrz aZRCGZAFS4nh1V7FR4R+jM2dcH2Gi0J69m0lL/2aOj4jd+U4l6BoHT/RWVu0lho2 OtMPKF0FNnDtwWP6wQTxWHp6RcJqFkQ3CX0ch72/utrGWBYAvz2pXm/Q/O6hCN5a MveWpnRzh9auQ9HfHiLhvOVBHYR1t22YbNWGlsAezzqysQnwSeOwpL/Rj7HrNHj5 mquydzvEKLe3Zx3UXCYk =3g0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_4D3FE985-F61C-4EEB-9489-02A9A8DA380F--
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