RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 01/02/2018 11:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 02/01/2018 02:24 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> ia64 seems to be in a good shape with only two issues which requires further
>> investigation (nptl/tst-cancel21-static and stdlib/tst-makecontext3 and
>> for the later I think it is a long-standing issue).
> 
> Sounds good :). Then I think I am mostly worried with sparc64. It has
> really lots of testsuite failures.

I will check sparcv9/sparc64 later today as well.

> 
>> However the math tests seems to shows a lot of corner cases issues which
>> has been fixed in generic implementations. As I commented with Jason Duerstock,
>> John Paul Adrian, and James Clarke in a private thread I think easier solution
> 
> You can just say Adrian :-).
> 
>> for 2.28 is we remove the arch-specific faulty ia64 math implementation and
>> use the generic ones. If performance is an issue we reimplement and fixed
>> them if it is the case.
> 
> Do you think you could whip up a patch that we can apply to the 2.26 package
> in Debian? If it's just a matter of disabling ia64-specific code, it shouldn't
> be too difficult, should it?

If it is a matter of code removal I think backport should not be difficult.