Re: FYI: mips-linux port status

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> After some interesting toolchain fiddling, and a little help from H.J. Lu
> with more toolchain work, I've got the port in what I consider acceptable
> shape.  I'm down to under fifty FAILs now, and the largest portion of my
> patches to other areas of GDB are merged in.  There's a few yet to go,
> though.
> 
> The known issues are:
>   - need to implement sigtramp functions; they're just FIXMEs still
>   - once you stop inside a shared library, you can't backtrace out of it.  I
>     believe I know mostly what's going wrong; I'll get back to this in a
>     little while.
>   - copyright.  I can't get a response from David Miller as to whether or
>     not he filed the assignment paperwork for the original work he did on
>     this code.  While very little of what he did is left, and decreasing
>     every day, I believe we may still need an assignment.  Does anyone have
>     a more effective way to reach him than email, or know whether that
>     assignment was filed?

The GDB copyright papers should be ok for Dave, I just checked the
master source at the FSF.

So, IMO those patches from Dave can go in.

Andreas
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