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Re: [PATCH] FT32: support for FT32B processor - part 1
- From: Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>
- To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 10:38:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] FT32: support for FT32B processor - part 1
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On 2017-10-07 01:01 PM, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:51:02 +0000
> James Bowman <james.bowman@ftdichip.com> wrote:
>
>> FT32B is a new FT32 family member. It has a code
>> compression scheme, which requires the use of linker
>> relaxations. The change is quite large, so submission
>> is in several parts.
>>
>> Part 1 adds a 15-bit instruction field, and CPU-specific functions for
>> the code compression that are used in binutils and GDB.
>>
>> This patch contains the gdb changes. The corresponding binutils patch is
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-10/msg00010.html
>>
>> OK to commit?
>
> Hi James,
>
> I've looked over your patch. While I have not researched the specifics
> of the FT32B, your patch looks reasonable to me.
>
> I would approve this patch if I could, but after looking at
> sim/MAINTAINERS it seems that only Mike Frysinger may approve this
> patch.
>
> Kevin
>
There is no maintainer listed for ft32 architecture, both in gdb/ and sim/.
Maybe it would be useful to have some, so arch-specific changes can go through
them (just throwing the idea out there).
Simon