I would like to propose that the steering committee add me as one of the GCC PowerPC maintainers. Hopefully this will address some of the bandwidth issues we've had in adding PowerPC patches.
For those that do not know me, I have been working on GCC at various companies since 1985. I had some time working on other things, but mostly it has been all GCC: * Data General (88000) * Open Software Foundataion (i386/x86_64, Mips, ns32k) * Cygnus Solutions (various targets including PowerPC) * Red Hat (NEC 5432/5500 and ujitsu FRV-500) * AMD (i386/x86_64) * IBM (cell, PowerPC) In terms of the PowerPC support, along with my other team members, I worked on adding the support for power7 using the new VSX vector unit. Along with my team, I worked on adding various features for the power8 and power9 processors. I worked on adding the support for prefixed addressing that was in power10, and some other power10 support. I added support for adding IEEE 128-bit floating point support to GCC that took several releases and years to finally get it. Recently, I have been working on adding support for Dense Math registers that may be in a future version of the PowerPC. I also have been implementing 16-bit floating point support (both IEEE 754 16-bit floating point and Google brain 16-bit floating point). I presented GNU Cauldron papers in 2015 and 2016 on the PowerPC. I presented other papers at the previous GCC summits in 2009 and 2010 that were not on the PowerPC. In the past when I was at Cygnus Solutions, I was a co-maintainer for the PowerPC with David Edelsohn. I am also a global reviewer. Long term, I would like to explore getting Surya Kumari Jangala as a maintainer as well. I expect this may be a longer term thing. -- Michael Meissner, IBM PO Box 98, Ayer, Massachusetts, USA, 01432 email: [email protected]
