Re: [commit] Replace "Hitachi" and "Mitsubishi" with "Renesas"

Kei Sakamoto
2003-10-14T04:30:01Z

> > Hello,
> >
> > While I was writing a documentation for m32r new remote target,
> > I found that there were a lot of "Hitachi" and "Mitsubishi" in
> > source files and documentations.
> >
> > Since they are now Renesas Technology, I replaced them with
> > "Renesas."
> >
> > I've committed this as obvious.
>
> Unfortunately, this one isn't so obvious, sigh! Should "Hitachi" or
> "Mitsubishi" appears in an historic context then that name should be
> retained - we need to avoid rewriting history. For instance:
>
> -Hitachi America, Ltd. sponsored the support for H8/300, H8/500, and
> +Renesas America, Ltd. sponsored the support for H8/300, H8/500, and
> Super-H processors.
>
> "Hitachi" (a specific legal entity), and not "Renesas" sponsored the H8
> development. At that time Renesas did not exist.

I agree. I'll fix it.

> Similarly, for specific products that didn't survive the merger, I think
> it's again better to let the comments reflect history

The products, which are not for sale now, are still supported.
For example, E7000 is not listed in the current product list,
but it is still supported. After Renesas Technology started,
its manual on Renesas webpage was updated so that "Hitachi"
in it were replaced with "Renesas".
So we should use "Renesas" for those kind of products in gdb.

> (Is the E7000 still live? For the d10v, I've never had success
> finding anything public on it and I've tried a number of sources,
> would you have a pointer?)

I'm sorry but there is not any documents about d10v in public.
But I'm not sure but it's maybe because d10v is sold to the specific
customers.

Kei

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Kei Sakamoto
Renesas Technology Corp.