James Carlson wrote: > > Moved from opensolaris-arc to arc-discuss; see: > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/arc-faq/arc-publish-historical-checklist/ > > Also removed psarc-ext, as that's not correct. > > Roland Mainz writes: > > PSARC 1993/685 PowerPC_ABI > > I'm looking through this one now, and I see a *lot* of confidential > materials, including discussions and agreements with third parties, > encumbered ABI documentation, and things of unknown origin.
I know... ... if you remove sections can you please add small comment like... -- snip -- <section_removed title="agreement about patents" reason_for_removal="confidential" /> -- snip -- ..., please ? > Are you sure you want this opened anyway? I will likely be able to > open only a tiny fraction of the case, and the folks with direct > knowledge of the details (who could possibly clear up the licensing > issues) seem to be long gone. ... I know that... > > PSARC 1994/188 Solaris Kernel for PowerPC > > PSARC 1994/196 PowerPC Header Files > > PSARC 1994/197 PowerPC Commands > > PSARC 1994/302 PowerPC_Booting > > PSARC 1995/077 processor_info(2) binding for PowerPC and future ISAs > > PSARC 1995/082 PowerPC sysconfig parameters > > PSARC 1995/153 PPC installboot > > > > We need this materials as template for a set of ARC casess to specify > > support for a new architecture/hardware platform... > > I'll look over those as time allows, but my guess would be that it's > unlikely to be useful material for a new architecture. You're much > better off just writing a straightforward case that describes the new > ABI and the relevant issues, and going in for an inception review. That's the current draft plan anyway (and it may be lots of discussion since we start with an ABI which may be "Uncommited" for the first six months). > I think you're looking at a time-waster. Erm... I disagree.... even in a cut-down form the cases may give at least a "frame" of what is needed, which project state is required by the implemenmtors and may allow to give an esimation how long it may take to create such an ARC case... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
