----- Am 16. Sep 2024 um 15:24 schrieb David Edelsohn dje....@gmail.com:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 9:15 AM Sebastian Huber <
> sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>
>> ----- Am 16. Sep 2024 um 15:02 schrieb David Edelsohn dje....@gmail.com:
>>
>> > On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM Sebastian Huber <
>> > sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> the PowerPC SPE port was obsoleted in GCC 8. It was moved from the
>> general
>> >> PowerPC directory (gcc/config/rs6000) to a separate directory
>> >> (gcc/config/powerpcspe). In GCC 9, it was removed due to a lack of
>> >> maintenance.
>> >>
>> >> I am not a compiler expert, so I have no idea how much work it is to
>> keep
>> >> a back-end up to date. How much work would it be roughly to bring the
>> >> PowerPC SPE port from GCC 8 to the current version? Is this in the
>> range of
>> >> person weeks, months, years?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Why do you wish to resurrect the port?
>>
>> Some products using the PowerPC SPE are still in service for at least the
>> next ten years. We probably have not enough funding to continuously
>> maintain the port. I am looking for options to bring it back to GCC 15
>
>
> NXP did not have the financial motivation nor the will to maintain the
> port. NXP was free-riding on the IBM team.
Yes, this was not really a great move from Freescale/NXP.
>
> Without analysis, it's difficult to estimate the amount of work. A lot of
> things in GCC between GCC 8 and GCC 15 -- both in the common parts of the
> compiler and in the PowerPC port from which PowerPC SPE was split. GCC 15
> is an ambitious goal.
Thanks for your estimate, ambitious sounds not that good.
>
>
>> Maybe this is not the right mailing list for this work.
>>
>
> This is an odd reply to a simple question.
Sorry, maybe my subject was a bit misleading. My intention was not to bring
back the PowerPC SPE port as an official mainline GCC port. We definitely don't
have the funding for this. I was hoping to get in contact with an individual or
a company which may help us to get it from GCC 8 to a newer version.
>
> David
>
>
>>
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