RE: Contribute Target Question

["Weddington, Eric" <Eric dot Weddington at atmel dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Korn [mailto:dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:47 PM
> To: Dave Korn; binutils@sourceware.org; weston.schmidt@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Contribute Target Question
> 
>   Fair enough.  I'll verify it with fsf-records, but I reckon 
> it's a good
> enough bet that it would be worth Weston's effort to get 
> started with doing
> his own assignment paperwork and preparing the patches.
> 

Hi All,

A few points:

- I'm also a co-maintainer of the AVR port on GCC, along with Anatoly and Denis.

- No, Atmel has NEVER said that we are no longer going to provide a standalone AVR32 GCC compiler (and binutils, etc.). I don't know where this information came from, but it is entirely wrong.

- Atmel does NOT agree that someone outside of Atmel should submit the AVR32 port to the FSF projects. This is mainly for practical reasons: We have been working on additional features and bug fixes that are not in the public yet, so we really have the latest patches. Any patches submitted from outside Atmel at this point would just require additional work and delay.

- Atmel does have a copyright assignment on file.

- The AVR32 port is a 32-bit target and has a completely different ISA to the AVR 8-bit target. Yes, all they share in common is the name. No, not my decision.

- We are currently working on getting the source code ready to submit the AVR32 port upstream. I'm hoping to have the binutils port ready by the end of this month (or earlier). The AVR32 GCC port is going to take a bit longer because of extra code in the middle-end that I'd like to see removed to the back-end.

@Weston: Feel free to email me off-list for any information about the AVR32 target.

Thanks,
Eric Weddington
Atmel