On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Olof Kindgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2012/1/18 Julius Baxter <[email protected]>:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Olof Kindgren <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> 2012/1/17 [email protected] <[email protected]>:
>>>> Hi all:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at this patch, applied not long ago:
>>>>
>>>>   ORPSoC: Fix Bug 76 - Incorrect unsigned integer less-than compare with
>>>> COMP3 option enabled
>>>>   OR1200 RTL fix and software test added.
>>>>
>>>> This patch landed in the OpenCores Subversion repository at this location:
>>>>
>>>>   /openrisc/trunk/orpsocv2/rtl/verilog/or1200
>>>>
>>>> However, I just realised that there is another copy of the OpenRISC core 
>>>> RTL
>>>> at this location:
>>>>
>>>>   /openrisc/trunk/or1200/rtl/verilog
>>>>
>>>> This copy does not seem to have been patched though.
>>>>
>>>> I think I've read in this forum that there is a similar issue with the GCC
>>>> toolchain, there are at least 2 copies, is that right?
>>>>
>>>> I am confused about which copies I should be using at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>   R. Diez
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> You are right. I reopened bug bug 57 a few days ago
>>> (http://bugzilla.opencores.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57)
>>> This is not good, especially as we had the two code bases in sync
>>> before that. Someone should patch this in the upstream core, and until
>>> we only have a single one copy all patches should apply to both from
>>> here on. I know that there is an argument for having ORPSoCv2-specific
>>> patches, but I'm not really sure there are any real use cases for
>>> that.
>>
>> There's already a thread for this bug. See my last post on it:
>>
>> http://lists.openrisc.net/pipermail/openrisc/2011-December/000507.html
>>
>> I was waiting for someone else to confirm this bug is fixed before
>> patching the upstream copy.
>>
>> But, totally agree on the issues relating to multiple copies and that
>> having them is one of the worst things you can do.
>>
>>    Julius
>
> You're right, Julius. I had missed that thread. Do we have enough
> confidence in the solution now to patch the upstream copy, or do we
> need to take some action before that?

I'm very sure the fix is good
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