At Tue, 13 May 2003 09:31:05 -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > A lot of people use ix86. It's majority. It may be radical > > statement, but I think ix86 user's priority is higher than minor > > architecture breakage. Many users don't know except for ix86 :-) > > this is not a democracy :) if we are going to go the route of "x86 is > 95% of the users, so let's treat x86 special", then we might as well > drop support for all the other architectures.
Usually "democracy" adopts "rule of majority" :) Well, the wonderful feature of debian is its number of supported architecture. I believe we really provide the infrastructure for the minor architecture. > > BTW, what is the status for hppa? If it's not so much, I would like > > to help you, AFAIC. > > Carlos will have a better overall view of what's needed for glibc. I've > looked at the nptl part of it a bit. There is work needed for binutils, > gcc and glibc. I will be discussing this more with Carlos and Dave (our > gcc/binutils upstream maintainer) during gcc-summit at the end of this > month. > > There is a preliminary design for NPTL for hppa. The first step to get > this to work is for us to agree on a workable design for implementing > this. I hope to get that done by the end of the month. Excellent. I hope you and Carlos work for toolchain to be available hppa back soon. BTW, I would like to know that hppa unwind issue needs to modify gcc/binutils? Regards, -- gotom
