Re: Proposal to Removal of QNX Neutrino support from GDB

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>]

On 8/4/21 11:14, Stephen Webb wrote:
> On 2021-08-04 10:51, Simon Marchi wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2021-03-01 11:45 a.m., Simon Marchi via Gdb wrote:
>>>> Regarding the copyright assignment, I'd like to see what is the status
>>>> of QNX.  Is there maybe an existing company-wide copyright assignment
>>>> for QNX, given the past contributions?  Unfortunately, the GNU server
>>>> used to check those seems down.  I'll try back later.
>>>>
>>>> If there isn't, it's possible to get an assignment for individuals, or a
>>>> company-wide one (meaning that any QNX employee can submit code to GDB).
>>>>
>>>> The typical form we point individuals to to get an assignment is this
>>>> one (also down for me at the moment):
>>>>
>>>>      https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/plain/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future__;!!COg3wY07Hnb7!-QdSDefYRZU83E3QoIKDECG14HQyWydyjH4yGM0yF8AikrbmXWSfBM_bHGRdXuRJ$
>>>>
>>>> But I don't know if that differs if you want to get one for someone who
>>>> will contribute on behalf of a company.  The folks at assign@gnu.org
>>>> will be able to help you.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, I'd suggest sorting the copyright assignment thing as early
>>>> as possible, because that can take some time.  You can still send
>>>> patches and get them reviewed while that is pending, but you won't be
>>>> able to merge the patches until that's done.
>>>
>>> I was able to take a look at the copyright assignment file.  I found an
>>> entry dating from 2002-02-15 for GDB, with no name (it only mentions
>>> QNX).  So it's perhaps a company-wide assignment?  Hopefully that can
>>> help you find any traces of it internally.  In doubt, ask
>>> assign@gnu.org, they probably have access to the detailed paperwork.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>
>> Hi Stephen
>>
>> Do you have any updates about this?
> 
> I am still wrestling with internal demons on this, I apologise for the 
> silence.  I should have some basic binutils patches soon as a first step.

Hi Stephen,

Someone reminded me of this thread... any news on your side about
upstream contributions?

Simon