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Re: New Port Contribution
- From: <tm_gccmail at mail dot kloo dot net>
- To: Dan Towner <dant at picochip dot com>
- Cc: law at redhat dot com, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>,gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:56:21 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: New Port Contribution
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Dan Towner wrote:
>
> > >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 assignment
> > >> 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.
>
> Dan.
The "pico" port done by Steve was a port to the sun picoJava chip, which
is a stack-based architecture which executes most of the Java bytecodes.
Toshi