[PATCH] FT32: support for FT32B processor - part 1

[Simon Marchi]

On 2017-10-07 01:01 PM, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:51:02 +0000
> James Bowman <james.bowman@ftdichip.com> wrote:
> 
>> FT32B is a new FT32 family member. It has a code
>> compression scheme, which requires the use of linker
>> relaxations. The change is quite large, so submission
>> is in several parts.
>>
>> Part 1 adds a 15-bit instruction field, and CPU-specific functions for
>> the code compression that are used in binutils and GDB.
>>
>> This patch contains the gdb changes. The corresponding binutils patch is
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2017-10/msg00010.html
>>
>> OK to commit?
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> I've looked over your patch. While I have not researched the specifics
> of the FT32B, your patch looks reasonable to me.
> 
> I would approve this patch if I could, but after looking at
> sim/MAINTAINERS it seems that only Mike Frysinger may approve this
> patch.
> 
> Kevin
> 

There is no maintainer listed for ft32 architecture, both in gdb/ and sim/.
Maybe it would be useful to have some, so arch-specific changes can go through
them (just throwing the idea out there).

Simon