On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Stefan Wallentowitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am about to finish my work on clearing up the newlib port. I already
> discussed some stuff with upstream and will try to get it there asap. These
> are the major changes:
>  * License change from GPL to BSD. I asked all contributors and essentially
> only had to rewrite the uart stuff, write() and some minor stuff. I will
> double-check again I did not forget anybody, which is slightly complicated
> due to moving around this code and me splitting it up
>  * All or1k-support moved to libglosss, this is how it should be I think
>  * or1k-elf is a sys now to solve the issue with dynamic reentrancy vs. the
> current upstream (for rtems)
>  * spr-defs.h is or1k-sprs.h now which is generated from
> openrisc/or1k-headers under BSD. This will break your current code due to
> new macro names, I will write a small python script to help your converting
> macro names the next weeks and put it on the site above
>  * Multicore is already builtin. Currently it is built extra as libor1k_mc.a
> and crt0_mc.o (see wallento/or1k-gcc:multicore for picking it up). This may
> change to a multilib in the near future.
>  * Code re-organization (clear namespaces, more documentation, splitup asm,
> combine syscalls, boards into subdir, ...)
>
> This is the website for the port: http://wallento.github.io/or1k-newlib/
> I added some pre-built archives for download (that need to go to
> /opt/or1k-toolchain, still need to describe how to relocate). Furthermore
> there are continuous builds from the git repositories whenever either
> openrisc/or1k-src, openrisc/or1k-gcc or wallento/or1k-newlib change. The
> build status is published at http://lis.ei.tum.de/jenkins/ and the archives
> can be downloaded at the aforementioned website.
> Finally, here is the documentation of or1k-support:
> http://wallento.github.io/or1k-newlib/docs/html/modules.html
>
> Please be so kind and help me with testing, code review and license checking
> if you find the time. Any help is welcome. The code is roughly tested and I
> will continue with automated regression tests the next days, before packing
> a patch proposal for upstream.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
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Hi Stefan,

Excellent work! Thanks for all the hard work, and I'll make sure to
report any problems that I might come across

//Olof
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