gcc tricore porting

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023, 4:33 AM Claudio Eterno <eterno.claudio@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Joel, I'll give an answer ASAP on the newlib and libgloss...
> I supposed your question were about the licences question on newlib,
> instead you were really asking what changed on the repo libs...
>

It was a bit of both. If they put the right licenses on the newlib and
libgloss ports, you should be able to use them and eventually submit them.
But GCC, binutils, and gdb would be gpl and require an assignment to the
FSF. That is all I meant.

An option here is to reach out to the authors and ask if they are willing
to do the FSF assignment. If they are, then any GPL licensed code from them
might be a baseline.

It looks like their current products may be based on LLVM.

--joel


C.
>
>
> Il giorno dom 2 lug 2023 alle ore 19:53 Claudio Eterno <
> eterno.claudio@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Joel, can you give me more info regarding newlib or libgloss cases?
>> Unfortunately I'm a newbie on th9is world...
>> Thank you,
>> Claudio
>>
>> Il giorno dom 2 lug 2023 alle ore 17:38 Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 3:29 AM Claudio Eterno <eterno.claudio@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Joel and Mikael
>>>> taking a look at the code it seems that the repo owner is higtech
>>>> <https://hightec-rt.com/> but we have no confirmations.
>>>> In fact, after a comparison with gcc 9.4.0 original files i see this on
>>>> a lot of ("WITH_HIGHTEC") [intl.c]:
>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>> Probably this version of gcc is a basic version of their tricore-gcc
>>>> and probably works fine but that repo doesn't show any extra info.
>>>> Seems also impossible to contact the owner (that account doesn't show
>>>> any email or other info)..
>>>> Honestly with these conditions, from gcc development point of view,
>>>> that repo has no value.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Without an assignment, you can't submit that code. That's a blocker on
>>> using it if there isn't one.
>>>
>>> But you can file an issue against the repo asking questions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway this is a good starting point...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe not if you can't submit it. Anything that needs to be GOL licensed
>>> and owned by the FSF is off limits.
>>>
>>> But areas with permissive licenses might be ok if they stuck with those.
>>> Look at what they did with newlib and libgloss.
>>>
>>> --joel
>>>
>>>
>>>> C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Il giorno lun 19 giu 2023 alle ore 18:55 Joel Sherrill <joel@rtems.org>
>>>> ha scritto:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 10:36 AM Mikael Pettersson via Gcc <
>>>>> gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> (Note I'm reading the gcc mailing list via the Web archives, which
>>>>>> doesn't let me
>>>>>> create "proper" replies. Oh well.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun Jun 18 09:58:56 GMT 2023, <eterno.claudio@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi, this is my first time with open source development. I worked in
>>>>>> > automotive for 22 years and we (generally) were using tricore
>>>>>> series for
>>>>>> > these products. GCC doesn't compile on that platform. I left my
>>>>>> work some
>>>>>> > days ago and so I'll have some spare time in the next few months. I
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> > like to know how difficult it is to port the tricore platform on
>>>>>> gcc and if
>>>>>> > during this process somebody can support me as tutor and... also if
>>>>>> the gcc
>>>>>> > team is interested in this item...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/volumit has a port of gcc + binutils + newlib +
>>>>>> gdb
>>>>>> to Tricore,
>>>>>> and it's not _that_ ancient. I have no idea where it originates from
>>>>>> or how complete
>>>>>> it is, but I do know the gcc-4.9.4 based one builds with some tweaks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/volumit/package_494 says there is a port in
>>>>>> process to gcc 9. Perhaps digging in and assessing that would be a good
>>>>>> start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> One question is whether that code has proper assignments on file for
>>>>> ultimate inclusion. That should be part of your assessment.
>>>>>
>>>>> --joel
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know anything more about it, I'm just a collector of
>>>>>> cross-compilers for
>>>>>> obscure / lost / forgotten / abandoned targets.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Mikael
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Claudio Eterno
>>>> via colle dell'Assietta 17
>>>> 10036 Settimo Torinese (TO)
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Claudio Eterno
>> via colle dell'Assietta 17
>> 10036 Settimo Torinese (TO)
>>
>
>
> --
> Claudio Eterno
> via colle dell'Assietta 17
> 10036 Settimo Torinese (TO)
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