llvm dev - Jul 2013 - [LLVMdev] Deprecating and removing the MBlaze backend

Doesn't seem to get a lot of love since most of the commits in the
last 3 years have been maintenance. I guess it doesn't take a whole
lot of maintenance either, but...

cc'ing Wesley since he seems to be the last guy to commit to it.

Thoughts?

-eric

Chandler brought up removing it back in February but Rogelio Serrano said he
could maintain it  and Jeff Fifield from Xilinx was supposed to check if someone
could help.

If no one has stepped up in the past 5 months, then I don't see an issue
with removing it.

Micah
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> Subject: [LLVMdev] Deprecating and removing the MBlaze backend
> 
> Doesn't seem to get a lot of love since most of the commits in the last
3 years
> have been maintenance. I guess it doesn't take a whole lot of
maintenance
> either, but...
> 
> cc'ing Wesley since he seems to be the last guy to commit to it.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -eric
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So this came up a few months ago and I briefly tried to drum up support
within Xilinx to maintain/improve the MBlaze backend.  I also put it on my
todo list to starting doing some of this myself if needed.  It now sounds
like I should increase the priority of these tasks.  My request is to wait
another couple of months before moving to deprecate and remove.  If I can't
generate any activity by then, go for it -- I completely understand that a
backend without a maintainer no good.

Thanks,
Jeff


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at
gmail.com>wrote:
> Doesn't seem to get a lot of love since most of the commits in the
> last 3 years have been maintenance. I guess it doesn't take a whole
> lot of maintenance either, but...
>
> cc'ing Wesley since he seems to be the last guy to commit to it.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -eric
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On Jul 25, 2013 5:29 AM, "Micah Villmow" <micah.villmow at
smachines.com>
wrote:
>
> Chandler brought up removing it back in February but Rogelio Serrano said
he could maintain it  and Jeff Fifield from Xilinx was supposed to check if
someone could help.

Most of my customers changed their minds and dropped mblaze. One stuck to
gcc and the rest moved to another arch and toolchain. I'm Sorry guys.
>
> If no one has stepped up in the past 5 months, then I don't see an
issue
with removing it.
>
> Micah
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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cs.uiuc.edu]
> > On Behalf Of Eric Christopher
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:10 PM
> > To: peckw at wesleypeck.com
> > Cc: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: [LLVMdev] Deprecating and removing the MBlaze backend
> >
> > Doesn't seem to get a lot of love since most of the commits in the
last
3 years
> > have been maintenance. I guess it doesn't take a whole lot of
maintenance
> > either, but...
> >
> > cc'ing Wesley since he seems to be the last guy to commit to it.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > -eric
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On Jul 24, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Doesn't seem to get a lot of love since most of the commits in the
> last 3 years have been maintenance. I guess it doesn't take a whole
> lot of maintenance either, but...
> 
> cc'ing Wesley since he seems to be the last guy to commit to it.
I say that we drop it.  If someone steps up to start maintaining it, they can
begin by resurrecting it from SVN.

-Chris

> I say that we drop it.  If someone steps up to start maintaining it, they
can begin by resurrecting it from SVN.
Patches attached.

Cheers,
Rafael
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