[J-core] Bug#576242: gdb: Please support Renesas SH(sh4)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

We're currently working on improving SuperH support in Debian and Linux
in general since the architecture is currently being redeveloped as an
open source architecture called J-Core [1]. J-Core supports the SH-2
instruction set only, but it's expected to extend to SH-3 and SH-4
in the future. Hence, having working native SH support for gdb on Linux
would be very desirable.

>  * Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com> pointed out that any significant
>    contributors would need to sign copyright assignment papers, since
>    the patch is far from trivial.  Otherwise, GNU won't merge it, and it
>    will bitrot constantly.
>    <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00499.html>

This would actually the first and most important thing to do. I have
tried contacting Takashi YOSHII but so far I had no success. One that
could help would be Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, so I put him in CC. There is
also Yutaka Niibe whom we can ask.

Adrian

> [1] http://j-core.org/

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