Re: Upstream PSP support in binutils

[Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>]

Hi David,

> I'm reaching out to know how much interest there'd be to add upstream
> support in binutils for the Sony PSP CPU. Before patches are crafted and
> tests are written, I'd like to know if this is something that you guys
> would consider merging. I'd be doing the work but you would need to help
> reviewing and merging it of course :)

Of course. :-)

The short answer is "yes", but with a caveat.  Or two.  The first being that
someone needs to volunteer to act as a maintainer for the port.  They need
to be willing to read the mailing list, handle PSP specific bug reports,
answer questions about the port, and generally make sure that it carries on
working as the years progress.

The other caveat is that ideally the copyright for the patches should be
assigned to the FSF.  (Strictly speaking we are now accepting DCO signed
contributions as well, but for a new port I would feel happier with a
copyright assignment).  Plus they should follow the GNU Coding Standards,
not break other ports, have a testsuite, and all the usual things for a
contribution to the GNU Binutils.

Cheers
   Nick