FYI: mips-linux port status

FYI: mips-linux port status

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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?


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: FYI: mips-linux port status

[Andreas Jaeger]

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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Re: FYI: mips-linux port status

[Andrew Cagney]

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


Yes.  Daniel is free to modify David's patches.


> So, IMO those patches from Dave can go in.


Remember, the patches that are going to be tabled are from Daniel not David.

	Andrew