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Re: powerpc maintainership
> From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 23:59:48 +0100
> On Monday 06 January 2003 06:29, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > As Uli mentioned in his status report, powerpc32 is starting to fall
> > behind the main line of glibc development. Unfortunately, I don't
> > really have the time to perform the work required to keep up, and even
> > if I did I don't have a current copyright assignment. So, I am
> > stepping down as powerpc maintainer. Franz Sirl will act in my place,
> > but he does not have enough time to do this work either. I hope that
> > by having the place officially empty, someone will be encouraged to
> > come forwards to do this work.
>
> Do you have a PPC32 TODO somewhere and/or unfinished implementations/ideas
> lying around?
I've managed to lose my old TODO, but it contained at least:
- Use R2 for the thread register
- Switch to -mlong-double=128
- Try to support Altivec setjmp/longjmp using symbol versioning
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>