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

[Simon Marchi <simon dot marchi at polymtl dot ca>]

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.

Simon