[LLVMdev] The MBlaze backend: can we remove it?

[Reed Kotler]

On 02/05/2013 03:58 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Preston Briggs <preston.briggs at gmail.com
> <mailto:preston.briggs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         The MBlaze backend seems to be essentially unmaintained since
>         2011. The maintainer (Wesley Peck who is BCC'ed) seems to have
>         vanished, and in fact all emails to him are bouncing.
>
>
>         I propose to remove the MBlaze backend on Friday if none step
>         forward as a maintainer. Currently, folks are having to keep it
>         up to date when changing shared parts of the backend with no help.
>
>         -Chandler
>
>
>     I know of a potential user. I'll talk to them and see if they have a
>     person (or funding for a person) to maintain the thing.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Preston
>
>
> Awesome, happy to wait while you investigate. Thanks for tracking it down.
>
>
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There is even qemu support for microblaze.

I think it's excessive to remove a port so easily.

Once you announce that you want to remove it, you should wait at least a 
year.

It may have to wait for funding to be resurrected.

gcc had ports that nobody used for 10 years before they finally deleted 
them.

Reed