Hello Andrew, > On Mar 13, 2017, at 19:01 , Andrew Jenner <and...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > I volunteer to be the point of contact for the SPE port. > > Over here at CodeSourcery/Mentor Embedded, we have a strong interest in SPE > *not* being deprecated (we actively ship toolchain products with SPE > multilibs, and have customers for which these are important). We are > therefore volunteering resources (specifically, me) to maintain SPE upstream > as well. > > I am in the process of developing some patches to add VLE support upstream > (and expect to be maintainer of those once they are committed) so it would be > a good fit for me to be the SPE maintainer as well. > > We have been regularly running tests on the SPE multilibs (on our internal > branches) and they are in better shape than the test results Segher found > from 2015. We may have some (not yet upstreamed) patches that improve the > test results - I will be tracking these down and upstreaming them ASAP. I > will be expanding our regular build and test runs to cover trunk as well, and > will send test results to gcc-testsuite and report regressions. > > If there is no objection, I will submit patches tomorrow to un-obsolete SPE > and add myself to the appropriate section of the MAINTAINERS file. The other > changes will come once stage 1 opens.
Thanks for volunteering! As mentioned upthread, we (AdaCore) also have a significant user base, so a strong interest in the port remaining alive and we'll be happy to keep submitting patches we might have. The perspective of seeing VLE support come in is great news :) Best Wishes, Olivier
