[LLVMdev] [lld] Removal of ELF PowerPC port

[Michael Spencer]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Will Newton <will.newton at linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The PowerPC ELF backend of LLD is not in a particularly good state. It
> supports one relocation, has one test, and it does not seem to have
> received any commits other than tree-wide refactors since it was
> initially committed. It is also structured slightly differently to the
> other backends which means that refactoring patches that touch all the
> backends are made more difficult.
>
> Is anyone interested in maintaining this backend or would it be better
> to remove it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Will Newton
> Toolchain Working Group, Linaro
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I've CCed Sidney, who is the original committer of the PPC support.

I'm fine with removing it for now if nobody steps up as it's making
refactors difficult.

- Michael Spencer