From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6950 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2002 18:11:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 6888 invoked from network); 24 Apr 2002 18:11:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Apr 2002 18:11:12 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234113D26; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CC6F53F.90807@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:11:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020328 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Edelsohn Cc: Stan Shebs , Kevin Buettner , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PowerPC64 skip_prologue patch References: <200204241658.MAA24662@makai.watson.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00956.txt.bz2 > Andrew Cagney writes: > > > Andrew> The last time IBM contributed stuff to GDB was the s390. For that, > Andrew> individual electronic transfer letters were required. > > Andrew> Sounds like things have changed since then? > > The s390 and ppc64 toolchain contributions were approved by IBM a > long time ago. It would help if you directly, privately contacted IBM > colleagues to inquire about the facts instead of sending obtuse comments > about "streams of patches" and making uninformed decisions. I'm already doing this (I'm obviously contacting the FSF and not IBM though). For reference, the s390 contribution was via: GDB IBM Corporation .... Assigns patch gdb-5.1pre-050901-s390.tar.gz available at the URL http://....linux390/exp_src.html. (Software Letter) Andrew