Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] Add Aarch64 SVE Linux headers

[Alan Hayward <Alan dot Hayward at arm dot com>]

> On 8 Jun 2018, at 16:23, Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-06-08 10:37, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> The code looks good to me, thanks.  I am still unsure about the
>> licensing side of it, let me ask the FSF people about it, I'll come
>> back to you when it's done.  I hope it won't take too long!
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> After discussion with other maintainers, it was suggested to avoid involving the legal staff if we want to resolve this anytime soon.
> 
> Since ARM already holds the copyright to these header files anyway (they were all written by ARM people), you may be able to submit that code as regular FSF-assigned code, without changing the status of the kernel copy.  But nobody here is a lawyer, so nobody wants to say for sure :).
> 
> Maybe it's ok after all if we don't include these headers (at least for now), and require that GDB for native AArch64 is built against the headers of a >= 4.15 kernel?  They can always be included later, but it would avoid delaying the inclusion of the feature, since you want to have it before we branch 8.2.
> 

Sorry, I did miss this one (I think I sent my reply to the previous
one more or less the same time you sent this).

If I commit this, (I think) this is going to cause buildbot to break
for the aarch64 builds.
(Out of interest - I’ve heard people say they tested on buildbot. Are
there some instructions for doing that? I can try it out.)

I suspect updating buildbot is also not a quick fix.

If all that’s not ok (I suspect not), I’ll have a quick word with the
more legal aware people on my side, see if there is any opinion.


Alan.