[PATCH] Add sh4-nommu-nofpu architecture

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Wed Mar 10 06:16:00 GMT 2004


On Mar  9, 2004, amylaar@spamcop.net (Joern Rennecke) wrote:

>> We should probably discuss some protocol to enable us to reserve new
>> numbers in advance.

> I think that should simply be a patch to include/elf/sh.h to
> define the number without requiring to handle or do anything
> with the new number yet.

Well...  Sometimes we can't even mention that we are working on
something.  In this one case, we can say we're adding support to
SH2A, but that as far as I can go :-)

> We can also add a comment that we recommend that when shipping
> products with unassigned numbers, you should file that as a risk
> in your next SEC report...  That might help in getting a bit more
> priority to doing this merge work.

Or have Renesas and SuperH get together and assign these numbers in a
more official way than our getting together and talking about them :-)
After all, these numbers *are* in object files, so there are tool
compatibility issues.

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