Re: i wanna add new target to official release

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Ligang,

> Hi Nick,

You do know that your email was sent to a mailing list and not just me, 
right ?

> I have ported Binutils to a 32 bit chip designed by a Chinese IC design
> corporation.
> Now, We want to release the Binutils code to GNU official.
> What's the step?

Arrange for the assignment of your copyright for this work to be 
assigned to the FSF.  This process can be started by filling in the 
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Once that process is complete you can submit the patches to this list 
and we will review them, and if they are acceptable, we will integrate 
them into the source tree.  There are a couple of points to bear in mind 
about this process that will make it easier for us to complete this 
second step:

  1.  Please ensure that your code has followed the GNU Coding
      Standards.  It makes it much easier for us to read, and ensures 	
      that all the code in the binutils project has a uniform style.

      http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/

  2.  Please make sure that you have created ChangeLog entries to
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  4.  It helps if you can create new directories in the GAS and LD
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      sources are going to have any unforeseen side effects on your
      port.

Cheers
  Nick

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