From owner-freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 17:50:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: toolchain@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DC80106566C for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:50:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from damjan.marion@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8398FC18 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:50:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so1189686fxm.13 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:50:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=1otnIeUIqycbwaJp218v3611sgErkwk7uY0xKQZylMo=; b=HUzj7R9shzT57uJ3LfBXXg28WhPUQCd9zlIm0uQuVyWjfGPCpdaO2FeFyc4utEiX7l SyaNV+Ni25iSy5A0/IEKq4E0j3dLA+G9r3n78fIRRHNCbnRfkawamNwtXKKO9bE/1ibz bmewTqlaKASWXbJb1dkmfFefrdvNb04iQ3xso= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=OAVy/226Czu03XJpBEbYo8GABuuKajpMVHeFuv2605C49HKjCoMWaoNeiIa6EstKzv T15GsxTbKfixZX/me4tXcCrBO5JV+CZM8wvK4E0KWWV1/0lsRGYiJOLQwidGtVARs01L 4R+O8dV0+uiasDrEuWFBSA7kCQilFId+qXgoI= Received: by 10.223.87.69 with SMTP id v5mr90625fal.147.1308765009805; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:50:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.123.4] (cpe-109-60-79-155.zg3.cable.xnet.hr [109.60.79.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e16sm465047fak.41.2011.06.22.10.50.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Damjan Marion In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:50:05 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <67E75E6B-41EA-4FD5-B22A-29997CF6CF1C@gmail.com> References: <0C35FE0F-3301-44C6-AC40-233F6C446EBC@gmail.com> <744CFC2C-0F17-4AED-A54A-FC93EB885FAD@bsdimp.com> To: Warner Losh X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: toolchain@FreeBSD.ORG, Ryan Stone Subject: Re: ARM issue with old binutils X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:50:11 -0000 On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >=20 > On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Ryan Stone wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Warner Losh wrote: >>> I'd be inclined to include a small patch to FreeBSD's binutils to = implement this. You might be able to snag it from a newer version of = binutils if you can track down the author of that code and ask if you = can include it in a GPLv2 version of binutils. >>=20 >> Wouldn't the FSF be the copyright owner? I thought that they = required >> copyright assignment for contributions? >=20 > Not necessarily. Only large things need to be assigned. Simple = patches not so much... Does this mean that we can import ARMv7 support patch which is published = before upgrade to GPLv3 ? http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-02/msg00305.html