[PATCH] aarch64: add HXT Phecda core memory operation ifuncs

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/12/2018 12:03 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 06/12/2018 03:12 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> For a company, usually someone who has authorization to negotiate and 
>> sign contracts has to do this, not individual patch authors.
>>
>> In this case, I think we can still accept the patch because the number 
>> of lines changes is small (10 lines), but we'd need it for the next 
>> patch.
> 
> I am ambivalent about the legal significance since although the number 
> of lines of the change is small it could be argued as being a 
> significant feature addition given that it chooses optimal routines for 
> a specific processor core and implicitly provides information about the 
> Phecda microarchitecture.  As such, it is borderline newsworthy, 
> speaking of which, maybe it needs a NEWS entry like so:
> 
>  Â * Improved string routine performance for the Aarch64 HXT Phecda core.

To be clear, I did not comment on the significance of the patch (legal 
or otherwise).  I just repeated the rules used by the FSF used to 
determine if copyright assignment

| A change of just a few lines (less than 15 or so) is not legally
| significant for copyright.

<https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Legally-Significant.html>

I think we all agree that the size of the patch has little to do with 
how much work went into it and how much impact it will have on users. 8-)

Thanks,
Florian