patches from Tensilica

[Bob Wilson]

Tensilica has been planning for some time to contribute our binutils port for 
Xtensa processors.  It has taken a while to get our code updated to work with 
the latest binutils version, but I'm getting close now.

Besides the Xtensa-specific changes, I have a number of more general patches 
in my tree.  I am going to submit some of these now just to help reduce the 
number of changes in my tree.

We filed a copyright assignment form for binutils some time ago, so I think we 
should be all set on the legal issues.

I don't see anything on the binutils web page about CVS write access.  I've 
been maintaining the Xtensa port of GCC for about a year, so I'm mostly 
familiar with the processes used for GCC.  Does the binutils project follow 
similar procedures?  I'm going to have quite a few patches to submit, both in 
the near future to contribute the Xtensa port and on an ongoing basis to 
maintain that code, so it would be convenient to have CVS write access.  
Please let me know if that is a possibility.

Some initial patches to follow soon....

--Bob