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

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu]

Hi,

Sorry, replay was late.

Takashi already leaved from Renesas, he is working other company.
I am contacting him now, I am planning to ask him about this matter.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

2017-02-08 5:51 GMT+09:00 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de>:
> Hi!
>
> I have ported Yoshii-san's code to GDB 7.12, attaching an updated
> patch. A git repository with my linux-sh branch can be found in [1].
>
> Yutaka Niibe has already reached out to Renesas in Japan and is trying to
> get into touch with Yoshii-san, this might take a while though. However,
> I have talked with someone at the FSFE knowledgeable with open source
> licenses and it looks like we actually don't need the copyright assignment
> at all.
>
> If we needed the copyright assignment, we'd probably need it from Renesas
> anyway and not from Yoshii-san directly as he wrote the patch while working
> for Renesas who consequently are the copyright owners. And since Renesas
> already submitted their SH code to gcc, I assume they also already assigned
> the FSF copyright assignment (if that's actually needed).
>
> More updates coming soon.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
>> [1] https://github.com/glaubitz/binutils-gdb/tree/linux-sh
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