Re: [PATCH 0/24] MIPS: Add support for reconfigurable FPR size, MIPS MSA and MIPSR6,support

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Pedro Alves wrote:

> >  Finally please note that I cannot approve changes outside the MIPS 
> > target, but to speed up the process I'll check them regardless to see if 
> > there are any obvious issues.  You'll still have to seek a global 
> > maintainer's approval for those changes though.
> 
> I can't speak for others, but at least I was waiting for a
> repost and for Maciej to validate the overall idea.

 After numerous hiccups and distractions I am about to get back to this 
review.

 For the record -- I have come across an inconsistency in FCR handling, 
coming from a regression introduced with XML description support for the 
MIPS target, affecting this patch series.  I am about to commit a fix, 
after the final testing I'm still working on; I'd like to see it there in 
7.12 so that we have a fixed proper release before MSA goes in.  Code in 
the patch set will then have to be adjusted accordingly.

 Parts of some patches apply to binutils rather than GDB and need to be 
split, so I'll go through the series as they are so that there is no need 
to proliferate reposts unnecessarily.

> Also, for some reason, neither I nor the mailing list archives
> seem to have received the whole patch set:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-06/msg00510.html

 There has been an issue with this submission indeed in that it arrived as 
two separate threads, but the remaining patches do have made it there:

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-06/msg00425.html

> FYI, in case a global-maintainer review was the blocker here.

 I don't think so, not at this stage.  We need to sort out the general 
structure of the patch set first.  Please feel free, or indeed anyone 
else, to chime in if you like, of course.

  Maciej