Forgot to CC some relevant people and lists. On 02/10/2017 09:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > I have picked up an old patch which was posted to this mailing list > in 2011 [1] which adds native GDB support for Linux SuperH (SH). > > Since this patch was never merged for various reasons, it gained > dust and needed some work to be usable with current versions of > GDB again. > > I have taken the patch and forward-ported it to the current version > of GDB from git master. I have tested it on my SH7785LCR SuperH > hardware on Debian unstable and I was able to debug simple C > programs. I have not thoroughly tested the functionality, however. > > With this post, I would like to ask for some feedback on how to > proceed with this patch. The original author of the patch is > Takashi Yoshii who wrote it while working at Renesas Electronics > in Japan. > > Back in 2011, one of the major show-stoppers why the patch was > not merged was apparently the missing FSF copyright assignment > by the author [2]. However, since Yoshii-san was working for > Renesas back then, I think the copyright assignment would have > to be signed by them and not him personally. And since Renesas > has already contributed various SuperH code to various FSF > projects like gcc and binutils, I'd assume that the necessary > FSF copyright assignment has already been signed. > > I have also asked Yutaka Niibe (CC'ed) to try to get into touch > with Takashi Yoshii through his old connections at Renesas, in > case we would need some input from Yoshii-san's side. > > As for the technical part: I'm happy to take any feedback and > improve the patch so it has reached the necessary quality to > be able to get merged into GDB mainline. > > Having native GDB support for Linux SH has become relevant > again since the SuperH architecture is currently being > redeveloped as the J-Core open source architecture [3]. > > Thanks, > Adrian > >> [1] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00490.html >> [2] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00499.html >> [3] http://j-core.org/ > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
-- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913