Re: [patch] Matsushita AM33/2.0 port

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 15:25:13 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
wrote in message <or4qp8pvue.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>:
> On Jun 18, 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:
> > Oh, and again a great "thanks" to Alexandre: with a complete new port, I
> > can nicely compare that to what I do have currently to identify missing
> > pieces!
> 
> Take that with a grain of salt; it was my first port, and most of it
> was written years ago.  There may be a lot of obsolete stuff in there.
> I have another new glibc port that I hope to get a chance to
> contribute in the near future, but that one may involve lots of minor
> changes to the dynamic loader.  It's a glibc port for the Fujitsu FR-V
> architecture, that follows the same ABI as the frv-uclinux port, whose
> uClibc port I've started contributing some time ago, but still have
> some additional changes to post/rework.

So I'll look at both, as the second one gets available. However, I think
glibc isn't really my problem for vax-linux. It's GCC. Glibc, on a first
view, looks quite structured, and I think it's not really hard
maintaining a port. (That is, I can't really understand the motion
towards add-ons. Additional ports mostly seem quite straight forward to
me, being little invasive most of the time, so I don't really see why a
new port shouldn't just be placed into the code base, except for keeping
the tarball as small as possible.)

MfG, JBG

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