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maintainer change for OpenRisc

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue Dec 18 06:43:00 GMT 2001 
Hi Marko,

  Sorry for the delay in responding.

> About a year ago there was new architecture added to binutils, named
> openrisc. The maintainer was Johan Rydberg,  but unfortunately he
> was unable to finish his work. He would like to pass maintainership
> to me, so that I can put all the tools we already have into official
> versions.

Fair enough.  Are you aware of the responsibilities of a port
maintainer ?

> Original work by Johan was done using CGEN, but ours does not use
> it.

A shame, but that is the way it goes.

> If it is possible, we would also like to change openrisc name to
> something more familiar - the name we use: "or1k" (actually
> architecture name) or "or32" (implementation name).

This is acceptable.

> Who should I contact or what should I do to join binutils group?

Mailing to this list should work.  If you have problems you can send
mail directly to me, although I cannot guarantee an immediate response
either.

Firstly and most importantly do you (and anyone else who has worked on
the OpenRisc 1000 sources) have a copyright assignment on file with
the FSF ?  Without such an assignment we possible accept any source
submissions.

Secondly, in order to become a maintainer you will need write
permission on the binutils CVS archive.  Before I grant that I would
like to see some samples of the code you plan to submit.  Please could
you send a compressed archive of either the patches or the patched
files that you would like to apply directly to me.  (Unless this is a
small archive, please do not send it to the mailing list as some
people have slow, and expensive, email connections).

Cheers
        Nick
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