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Re: maintainer change for OpenRisc
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- To: "Marko Mlinar" <markom at opencores dot org>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>,"Johan Rydberg" <jrydberg at opencores dot org>, <lampret at opencores dot org>
- Date: 18 Dec 2001 14:08:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: maintainer change for OpenRisc
- References: <006b01c183b1$7ec42b80$0301010a@tyr>
Hi Marko,
Sorry for the delay in responding.
> About a year ago there was new architecture added to binutils, named
> openrisc. The maintainer was Johan Rydberg, but unfortunately he
> was unable to finish his work. He would like to pass maintainership
> to me, so that I can put all the tools we already have into official
> versions.
Fair enough. Are you aware of the responsibilities of a port
maintainer ?
> Original work by Johan was done using CGEN, but ours does not use
> it.
A shame, but that is the way it goes.
> If it is possible, we would also like to change openrisc name to
> something more familiar - the name we use: "or1k" (actually
> architecture name) or "or32" (implementation name).
This is acceptable.
> Who should I contact or what should I do to join binutils group?
Mailing to this list should work. If you have problems you can send
mail directly to me, although I cannot guarantee an immediate response
either.
Firstly and most importantly do you (and anyone else who has worked on
the OpenRisc 1000 sources) have a copyright assignment on file with
the FSF ? Without such an assignment we possible accept any source
submissions.
Secondly, in order to become a maintainer you will need write
permission on the binutils CVS archive. Before I grant that I would
like to see some samples of the code you plan to submit. Please could
you send a compressed archive of either the patches or the patched
files that you would like to apply directly to me. (Unless this is a
small archive, please do not send it to the mailing list as some
people have slow, and expensive, email connections).
Cheers
Nick