Hey there,
I saw the deprecation of ia64*-*-* scrolling by [1].
Which surprised me, as (minor bugs aside) gcc ia64*-*-linux just works for us
and
we still actively support it as part of our T2 System Development Environment
[2].
For ia64 we are currently a team of three and also keep maintaining
linux-kernel and
glibc git trees with ia64 restored and hope to bring back ia64 to linux
upstream the
coming months as promised. [3]
Despite popular believe ia64 actually just works for all those projects and we
already
fixed the few minor bugs we could find or reproduce.
Last week I also already patched and tested enabling LRA for ia64 in gcc [4]
and could
-without any regression- compile a full ia64 T2/Linux release ISO that boots
and runs
including an X desktop and Gtk applications. That was of course even with the
latest
linux kernel and glibc versions with ia64 support restored respectively.
Given there are currently no other volunteers, I therefore with this email step
up and
offer to become ia64 maintainer for GCC to keep the code compiling, tested and
un-deprecated for the next years and releases to come.
Thank you so much,
René Rebe
[1]
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc-bugs/[email protected]%2Fbugzilla%2F/T/
[2] https://t2sde.org/#news-2023-12-05
[3]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ia64/CAHk-=whflz67ffzt1jurycycyz6el_xjqf8wucdzwur5h65...@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/develop/gcc/ia64-lra-impl.patch
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