From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2721 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2001 21:49:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact sid-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sid-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2183 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2001 21:49:02 -0000 X-Authentication-Warning: crocodile-dances.eterna.com.au: mrg owned process doing -bs To: johan rydberg Cc: sid@sources.redhat.com, "Frank Ch . Eigler" subject: re: powerpc port - progress report :-) in-reply-to: your message of "Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:26:58 BST." <20011113222658.A32646@localhost> organisation: Red Hat, Asia-Pacific. Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 12:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: <21007.1005688033@cygnus.com> From: matthew green X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 actually, there's another legal issue. the semantics in the cpu are apparently equivalent to a translation from the CPU ISA manual, not an original work. i note that psim has this note at the top of the sim/ppc-instructions file: # The pseudo-code that appears below, translated into C, was copied # by Andrew Cagney of Moss Vale, Australia. # # This pseudo-code is copied by permission from the publication # "The PowerPC Architecture: A Specification for A New Family of # RISC Processors" (ISBN 1-55860-316-6) copyright 1993, 1994 by # International Business Machines Corporation. # # THIS PERMISSION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER # EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES # OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. johan, you may need to talk to IBM. .mrg.