Using SETI (Search Extra Tile-gx Information) I tried to find some recent news about tile-gx, such as a newer version of the instruction set, or new processor models or whatever indicating a sign of active development life. I find nothing.
To the contrary, what I can find is that the tile-gx architecture is being replaced by tile-mx, which is an ARM based chip. See a.o http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/ and http://www.bdti.com/InsideDSP/2015/03/03/EZchip and various other things such as ezchip roadmap. So, no developer, no user, no company person telling anything, and public information telling the chip will be replaced. So, it looks clear that tile-gx will have to be removed sooner or later. IMO, sooner is better: I spent some effort even very recently on the tile-gx files (as part of a factorisation effort) and it looks like this (evening/week-end) effort was just spent for nothing, while some real users have to wait because their wishes are just put in my TODO list. The above is some additional info for the discussion we can have at FOSDEM2017 valgrind BoF. Maybe we will receive some information from Mellanox before FOSDEM in the meantime. But with the current info, it looks doubtful anybody wants to spend any more effort on maintaining this. Philippe On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 21:59 +0100, Julian Seward wrote: > That's not a fair comparison. The Solaris port has a very active > maintainer and (presumably) also has users. By comparison the Tilegx > port has shown no signs of life for a considerable period of time, > despite attempts by more than one person here to contact both maintainers > and users. In my view it is valid to discuss whether we should continue > to have the Tilegx port in the tree. > > J > > On 13/01/17 21:43, Irek Szczesniak wrote: > > OK, next is to remove the Solaris port of valgrind. OS was > > discontinued, Oracle does not respond to emails and there is no > > emulator. > > > > Please remove. > > > > Irek > > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Ivo Raisr <iv...@ivosh.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >> 2017-01-12 20:36 GMT+01:00 Philippe Waroquiers > >> <philippe.waroqui...@skynet.be>: > >>> > >>> On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 13:37 +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: > >>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Petar Jovanovic <mips3...@gmail.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Philippe Waroquiers > >>>>> <philippe.waroqui...@skynet.be> wrote: > >>>>>> No sign of any tilegx user or developer activity since something like > >>>>>> one year. > >>>>>> No reply received for question in > >>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/valgrind/mailman/message/35566192/ > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Is there any tilegx user or developer still active ? > >>>>>> Should we consider this platform as dead ? > >>>>>> > >>>>> I have exchanged a few emails with Tilera/Mellanox compiler enigneers, > >>>>> and they say they cannot take care of TileGx port in Valgrind for the > >>>>> time being. > >>>> > >>>> Is there any emulator or other way we can use to test changes ? I > >>>> don't like seeing such a port just disappear... > >>> Well, if there is > >>> no known users, > >>> and no (original) developer doing maintenance > >>> and no reply from (original) developers to simple questions > >>> and no access to a system to test/compile > >>> and no nightly build > >>> and no tests in SVN > >>> and no emulator > >>> then IMO, this platform is a candidate to remove. > >>> as just keeping this compiling forever for no reason will > >>> at the end cost more than just removing it. > >> > >> > >> Agreed here. 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