From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69172 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2017 12:53:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 69154 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jun 2017 12:53:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:53:20 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28C1A85376; Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:53:23 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 28C1A85376 Authentication-Results: ext-mx01.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx01.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=nickc@redhat.com DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mx1.redhat.com 28C1A85376 Received: from [10.36.117.224] (ovpn-117-224.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.117.224]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28FD487C24; Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [RFC 2/5] xtensa: make configuration dynamic To: "augustine.sterling@gmail.com" , Max Filippov Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, David Weatherford , Maxim Grigoriev , Woody LaRue References: <1495487553-19078-1-git-send-email-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> <1495487553-19078-3-git-send-email-jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> From: Nick Clifton Message-ID: <3e6148ad-a559-5aac-da17-ddf4a7bb5e36@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00140.txt.bz2 Hi Augustine, Hi Max, > Actually, check that. I missed that this does both the refactoring > necessary to add a plugin mechanism and actually adds the plugin > mechanism. > > So: This introduces a plugin mechanism to gdb and binutils. That needs > a higher-level discussion regarding licensing and plugin mechanisms > generally, but from the general maintainers of both binutils and gdb. > > Would one of the general maintainers review this please? Well the binutils already has a plugin support, so this patch is just adding the ability for a different type of plugin to be used. I am OK with that, providing that the plugin itself is also licensed under the GPL v3. Cheers Nick