On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Julius Baxter <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Stefan Wallentowitz <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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
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>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> A minor point - but that link doesn't look to be active any more? Has it
> moved?
>
> Cheers
>
> Julius
>

Oh, and excellent work by the way! I agree with the move of or1k-support
stuff to libgloss.

Julius



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>> 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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