Re: [patch] target triplet for Microblaze.

[Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 17:43:50, Michael Eager wrote:
> 
>> MicroBlaze is a proprietary processor developed by Xilinx and, AFAIK,
>> they have not licensed it to other manufacturers.  
> 
> 
> 
>> Xilinx is the only possible specification which meets the definition
>> in Autobook.
> 
> That can't be right.
> 
> " cpu
>      The type of processor used on the system. (...)
> 
>  manufacturer
>      A somewhat freeform field which indicates the manufacturer of the system. (...)"
> 
> It's manufacturer of the system, not of the CPU.
> Note "used on the system", therefore cpu != system.  And "system"
> is really a broad term.  AFAIK, it's really a freeform field in
> practice, so you should be able to put anything there.  For example,
> if one takes xilink's toolchain sources (the gpl bits), fork / patch
> them for some reason, and build / distribute them oneself, one
> might want to legitimately change the manufacturer field to
> avoid confusion.

System, in this case, is the FPGA, manufactured by Xilinx.

If someone did fork the toolchain, how would that change
the manufacturer of the target system?

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