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Re: New Port Contribution
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Dan Towner <dant at picochip dot com>
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:08:13 -0700
- Subject: Re: New Port Contribution
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <3E822F3A dot 8020808 at picochip dot com>, Dan Towner writes:
>
>> >On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Dan Towner wrote:
>> >> For the last 18 months, I have been developing a port of gcc for the
>> >> picoChip embedded microprocessor range. I would now like to formally
>> >> contribute this port. How can I obtain the relevent copyright assignmen
>t
>> >> forms, and start the process of contribution?
>> >
>> >I didn't see any response on the mailing list; have you received the
>> >information concerning copyright assignment forms already?
>> >
>> >If not, I'll take care of it as soon as possible.
>> Question.
>>
>> Dan, is your port based on the old pico port done by Steve Chamberlin
>> a few years ago, or is it a new implementation for the pico chip?
>
>I've not heard of the previous pico port. The picoChip port is a
>brand-new port for a 16-bit DSP, which has been designed and
>manufactured over the last 18 months or so.
It's certainly possible it's a completely different chip. You might
check out gcc/config/pj/* from the attic just to be sure (the pj port
was deprecated some time ago due to lack of a maintainer).
Jeff