2012/4/14 Jeremy Bennett <[email protected]>

> On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 04:15 +0100, Julius Baxter wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Jeremy Bennett
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 14:13 +0200, Olof Kindgren wrote:
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >> There are a lot of things going with or1200, and recently there have
> > >> been more patches than we have had time to deal with. I know myself
> > >> that it is frustrating to submit patches without anyone acknowledging
> > >> them. Some of the proposed changes are also potentially breaking the
> > >> sw/hw ABI, which means we have to be really careful when we apply
> > >> them.
> >
> > Hi Olof
> >
> > This is true - we've been getting some good stuff from the likes of
> > Ruben and John and others and I've been a bit remiss in not finding
> > the time to properly push them through the process and get them into
> > the repository. It's been mainly a matter of time, but also I'm not
> > certain of the process for this stuff. I mean, we get patches and they
> > look fine to me - is my ACK enough for me to push it onto the repo?
> > Have we established this yet? I'd like to think so - this will make me
> > more likely to apply stuff which looks good and runs OK as soon as I
> > get around to having a go at it (which is usually within a day for RTL
> > patches.)
>
> Hi Julius,
>
> I put some explicit details on the process for Or1ksim. This is based on
> our common practice for some time, and is similar to other community
> based projects.
>
> Assuming this also works for the RTL, you I presume are a maintainer of
> the OR1200 project, so if you OK it, you or anyone with
> "write-after-approval" permission can commit it. It would be useful to
> agree who the maintainers are for the OR1200 RTL and spec and who has
> "write-after-approval" - we need a MAINTAINERS file in the OR1200
> directory. Only thing to avoid is approving your own patches.
>
> <snip>
>
> > > What is it that will break the ABI?>
> >
> > I think we came up with some changes for versioning which we were
> > happy with, and which shouldn't change the ABI. Same with the GPR0
> > clarifications, and the SR[DSX] behaviour during system call, etc. The
> > issue here is not the OR1200, it's updating the arch spec. Plus, we'll
> > need a bit of a synchronous update of both the models (RTL and
> > or1ksim) and arch spec to implement the versioning stuff.
>
> OK - ABI clarifications, not changes.
>
> > Perhaps I can just collate the necessary changes, publish something to
> > the mailing list covering the changed text in the arch spec and go
> > ahead and update the "draft" spec in the repo. (Something needs to be
> > done about that, too.) I think we got bogged down in discussion of a
> > text-based format for the arch spec document (like the OR1200 has now)
> > last time and how we're going to handle changes to it, but I say for
> > now i'll work on the updated text and just post it to the mailing list
> > for ACK. But as far as I recall, we had agreed on solutions. Maybe a
> > wiki page on this...
>
> Sounds good. It's what Wiki "talk" pages are for.
>
>
> Jeremy
>
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Hi all,

Just wanted to inform that I have branched out rev 794 to an or1200_rel3
branch. I have started to identify the changes since or1200_rel2 and put in
a ChangeLog. This will probably take a while, since there are a lot of
stuff that has been changed since the last release, but it will get there
eventually.

-- 
Olof Kindgren
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