Samsung CalmRISC16 support

Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

This is just a notice that at http://www.donat.org/archos/files/ you can
download the GNU-Pro sources done by RedHat with Samsung CalmRISC16 support.
Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.

Thanks,
Udo

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Diego Novillo]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 08:37, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:

> Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.
> 
Unfortunately, this is not how it works.  If you want to contribute your
port to GCC, please read http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html.


Diego.

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Steven Bosscher]

On Sep 17, 2004 02:37 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.

That would be up to someone who wants to contribute the port and
take responsibility for maintaining it.  Nobody will consider it
just like that, there has to be a port maintainer.

The port must obviously also be in good shape, but from looking
at the source in config/calmrisc16/, it hasn't been touched since
April 2001.  I doubt it would even work with recent GCC snapshots.

Gr.
Steven

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:51, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2004 02:37 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.
> 
> That would be up to someone who wants to contribute the port and
> take responsibility for maintaining it. 

And it's original authors have to be prepared to assign the copyright...

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Joern Rennecke]

> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:51, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 2004 02:37 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.
> > 
> > That would be up to someone who wants to contribute the port and
> > take responsibility for maintaining it. 
> 
> And it's original authors have to be prepared to assign the copyright...

No, that would be RedHat, as the Copyright holder, unless they already
assigned the Copyright to the FSF.  I did the CalmRISC16 port as a RedHat
employee.

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 14:25, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:51, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > > On Sep 17, 2004 02:37 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > > Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.
> > > 
> > > That would be up to someone who wants to contribute the port and
> > > take responsibility for maintaining it. 
> > 
> > And it's original authors have to be prepared to assign the copyright...
> 
> No, that would be RedHat, as the Copyright holder, unless they already
> assigned the Copyright to the FSF.  I did the CalmRISC16 port as a RedHat
> employee.

Indeed.  I should probably have used the word 'owner'.

I'd be surprised if RedHat would have a problem with such an assignment,
but it may depend on the nature of the contract that was undertaken to
do the work.

R.

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Jeffrey A Law]

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 07:04, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:51, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > On Sep 17, 2004 02:37 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current GCC.
> > 
> > That would be up to someone who wants to contribute the port and
> > take responsibility for maintaining it. 
> 
> And it's original authors have to be prepared to assign the copyright.
It's very possible the original work was from Cygnus/Red Hat.  We
did ports to the CalmRISC chips a few years ago.  It shouldn't be
terribly hard to find that codebase.

jeff

Re: Samsung CalmRISC16 support

[Steven Bosscher]

On Friday 17 September 2004 16:01, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 07:04, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:51, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > > On Sep 17, 2004 02:37 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > > Please consider incorporating the CalmRISC support to the current
> > > > GCC.
> > >
> > > That would be up to someone who wants to contribute the port and
> > > take responsibility for maintaining it.
> >
> > And it's original authors have to be prepared to assign the copyright.
>
> It's very possible the original work was from Cygnus/Red Hat.  We
> did ports to the CalmRISC chips a few years ago.  It shouldn't be
> terribly hard to find that codebase.

The source pointed to by Udo has CYGNUS LOCAL markers in it, and
the port has apparently not been touched since April/May 2001 (it
claims to be a "GCC 2.97" (!) variant).  So this *is* the Cygnus/
RedHat port.

Gr.
Steven