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Re: Tile changes
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> The 2.15 release hasn't been rolled out yet because I'm reviewing failures,
> but I hope to get that done this weekend and roll the release.
Well, 2.15 release (= 2.15.0) is the position of the annotated tags for
that release, which were created for libc on 25 December by Ulrich and for
ports on 3 January by me. It's the tarballs that haven't yet been
created. If there are problems with the code in 2.15 release, they may of
course be addressed on 2.15 branch, and at some point tags and release
tarballs of 2.15.1 release made.
> I will tell you right now that I'm not entirely comfortable adding a new
> architecture to a stable release and I will be seeking strong rationale from
> you and the community if you make a backport request to add TILE to the
> stable 2.15 branch.
The port is there (in ports) - it was checked into ports well before 2.15
was tagged and branched. But some of the libc changes it depends on
weren't fully reviewed and revised as needed before the release and branch
- so actually using the port in 2.15 needs backports of those libc
changes. The question is what risk they pose for other architectures -
whether it's safe to backport them so the Tile architectures work fully in
2.15 or whether it would be better for Chris to create his own branch,
based on 2.15, for Tile users of 2.15, that has the few extra changes
needed.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com