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Re: sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu
- From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>, libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:34:29 -0500
- Subject: Re: sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote on 10/03/2005 03:12:10 PM:
> The glibc code in sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu has been disused and
unmaintained
> for a while. Apparently it's broken. I've moved it to the ports
> repository, since the primary glibc development effort is not addressing
> the configurations that use this code. It can sit there abandoned with
the
> rest of the old cruft. But I thought I'd solicit for interest in
actually
> maintaining it. Aldy contributed the code originally, Steve has tweaked
it
> and is usually interested in all things PPC, and Dan, well, we know
about
> Dan. I deem you likely suckers. If a person or cabal would like to
come
> forth to be on the rack for this code and maintain it with direct cvs
write
> access in the ports repository, kindly pipe up now.
>
We are looking at this and discussing internally. Its a cross division
issue so this might take a while...
Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center