> > The MBlaze backend seems to be essentially unmaintained since 2011. The > maintainer (Wesley Peck who is BCC'ed) seems to have vanished, and in fact > all emails to him are bouncing.> I propose to remove the MBlaze backend on Friday if none step forward as a > maintainer. Currently, folks are having to keep it up to date when changing > shared parts of the backend with no help. > > -Chandler >I know of a potential user. I'll talk to them and see if they have a person (or funding for a person) to maintain the thing. Thanks, Preston -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130205/bb74c374/attachment.html>
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Preston Briggs <preston.briggs at gmail.com>wrote:> The MBlaze backend seems to be essentially unmaintained since 2011. The >> maintainer (Wesley Peck who is BCC'ed) seems to have vanished, and in fact >> all emails to him are bouncing. > > >> I propose to remove the MBlaze backend on Friday if none step forward as >> a maintainer. Currently, folks are having to keep it up to date when >> changing shared parts of the backend with no help. >> >> -Chandler >> > > I know of a potential user. I'll talk to them and see if they have a > person (or funding for a person) to maintain the thing. > > Thanks, > Preston >Awesome, happy to wait while you investigate. Thanks for tracking it down. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130205/0659d16d/attachment.html>
On 02/05/2013 03:58 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Preston Briggs <preston.briggs at gmail.com > <mailto:preston.briggs at gmail.com>> wrote: > > The MBlaze backend seems to be essentially unmaintained since > 2011. The maintainer (Wesley Peck who is BCC'ed) seems to have > vanished, and in fact all emails to him are bouncing. > > > I propose to remove the MBlaze backend on Friday if none step > forward as a maintainer. Currently, folks are having to keep it > up to date when changing shared parts of the backend with no help. > > -Chandler > > > I know of a potential user. I'll talk to them and see if they have a > person (or funding for a person) to maintain the thing. > > Thanks, > Preston > > > Awesome, happy to wait while you investigate. Thanks for tracking it down. > > > > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev >There is even qemu support for microblaze. I think it's excessive to remove a port so easily. Once you announce that you want to remove it, you should wait at least a year. It may have to wait for funding to be resurrected. gcc had ports that nobody used for 10 years before they finally deleted them. Reed