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re: powerpc port - progress report :-)
- To: johan rydberg <johan at rydberg dot com>
- Subject: re: powerpc port - progress report :-)
- From: matthew green <mrg at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:47:13 +1100
- Cc: sid at sources dot redhat dot com, "Frank Ch . Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Organisation: Red Hat, Asia-Pacific.
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actually, there's another legal issue. the semantics in the cpu
are apparently equivalent to a translation from the CPU ISA
manual, not an original work. i note that psim has this note at
the top of the sim/ppc-instructions file:
# The pseudo-code that appears below, translated into C, was copied
# by Andrew Cagney of Moss Vale, Australia.
#
# This pseudo-code is copied by permission from the publication
# "The PowerPC Architecture: A Specification for A New Family of
# RISC Processors" (ISBN 1-55860-316-6) copyright 1993, 1994 by
# International Business Machines Corporation.
#
# THIS PERMISSION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
# EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES
# OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
johan, you may need to talk to IBM.
.mrg.