From: Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>,
GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] Add Aarch64 SVE Linux headers
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1849A709-8B9D-4BD3-804D-C8697AB7430B@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f6d2b87-707a-3e34-325c-ed9338e9c1f6@redhat.com>
> On 12 Jun 2018, at 15:43, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/12/2018 03:37 PM, Alan Hayward wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 8 Jun 2018, at 16:23, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2018-06-08 10:37, Simon Marchi wrote:
>>>> The code looks good to me, thanks. I am still unsure about the
>>>> licensing side of it, let me ask the FSF people about it, I'll come
>>>> back to you when it's done. I hope it won't take too long!
>>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>
>>> After discussion with other maintainers, it was suggested to avoid involving the legal staff if we want to resolve this anytime soon.
>>>
>>> Since ARM already holds the copyright to these header files anyway (they were all written by ARM people), you may be able to submit that code as regular FSF-assigned code, without changing the status of the kernel copy. But nobody here is a lawyer, so nobody wants to say for sure :).
>>>
>>> Maybe it's ok after all if we don't include these headers (at least for now), and require that GDB for native AArch64 is built against the headers of a >= 4.15 kernel? They can always be included later, but it would avoid delaying the inclusion of the feature, since you want to have it before we branch 8.2.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I did miss this one (I think I sent my reply to the previous
>> one more or less the same time you sent this).
>>
>> If I commit this,
>
> What's "this" ?
Should have said “if I commit 4/10 without 2/10 it’s going to cause
buildbot to break"
>
> How about we add a configure check to check if the system headers support
> the needed SVE bits, and guard the native gdb SVE bits with
> HAVE_AARCH64_SVE or something like that?
>
Excellent idea. I can have a look at doing this - should be fairly quick to do.
In the meantime, lets keep the other discussion going.
Alan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-12 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-06 15:16 [PATCH v2 00/10] gdb/gdbserver support for aarch64 SVE Alan Hayward
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] Add reg_buffer_common Alan Hayward
2018-06-07 20:19 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-07 20:42 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-08 14:14 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-10 22:21 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] Add regcache raw_compare method Alan Hayward
2018-06-07 20:56 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-08 15:16 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-10 22:26 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] Ptrace support for AArch64 SVE gdbsever Alan Hayward
2018-06-11 2:43 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-11 2:44 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] Add Aarch64 SVE Linux headers Alan Hayward
2018-06-08 14:13 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-08 14:37 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-08 15:23 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-12 14:37 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-12 14:43 ` Pedro Alves
2018-06-12 15:06 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-12 15:11 ` Pedro Alves
2018-06-12 15:21 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-12 15:09 ` Alan Hayward [this message]
2018-06-12 14:51 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-12 16:34 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-06-12 17:51 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-12 20:29 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-06-15 9:45 ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2018-06-15 17:14 ` Alan Hayward
2018-09-20 21:16 ` Status of the AArch* builders (was: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] Add Aarch64 SVE Linux headers) Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-09-24 14:16 ` Alan Hayward
2018-09-24 14:42 ` Status of the AArch* builders Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-10-11 9:23 ` Alan Hayward
2018-10-12 19:06 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-10-15 10:16 ` Alan Hayward
2018-10-15 12:42 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-10-15 14:02 ` Alan Hayward
2018-10-15 15:32 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-10-17 18:46 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-10-24 9:56 ` Alan Hayward
2018-10-25 16:26 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2018-06-08 15:27 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] Add Aarch64 SVE Linux headers Alan Hayward
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] Aarch64 SVE pseudo register support Alan Hayward
2018-06-06 22:17 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-07 9:34 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] Increase gdbsever PBUFSIZ Alan Hayward
2018-06-11 0:46 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] Enable Aarch64 SVE for gdbserver Alan Hayward
2018-06-11 0:49 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] Ptrace support for Aarch64 SVE Alan Hayward
2018-06-10 22:52 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] Remove reg2 section from Aarch64 SVE cores Alan Hayward
2018-06-11 2:47 ` Simon Marchi
2018-06-11 16:37 ` Alan Hayward
2018-06-06 15:17 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] Add Aarch64 SVE dwarf regnums Alan Hayward
2018-06-11 0:43 ` Simon Marchi
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