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[0/9] Nios II port, introduction
- From: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:55:24 -0700
- Subject: [0/9] Nios II port, introduction
This patch series adds a binutils port for the Altera Nios II processor,
a 32-bit RISC target. Mentor Graphics has a full toolchain port for
this processor supporting both bare-metal ELF and GNU/Linux targets,
including ports for GCC, Newlib, GLIBC, and GDB. We will be submitting
the ports for the other components in due course.
This port was originally developed by Altera ca 2003-2005, and since
then it has been hacked on by a cast of thousands ;-) at CodeSourcery
and Mentor Graphics. While this port has been available for some time,
Altera have only recently assigned their copyright in the code to the
FSF, so we now have the legal right to submit it for inclusion in mainline.
Andrew Jenner (andrew@codesourcery.com) and I are willing to act as
co-maintainers for the port. Andrew implemented the Linux ABI and
target support some years ago, and my contribution has been updating the
patches against mainline head, general code review and cleanup, and
fixing bugs.
I've split the patch series into 9 pieces for convenience in reviewing,
although it's intended that all (except perhaps part 8) will be
committed together.
1/9: top-level configury
2/9: bfd support
3/9: opcodes support
4/9: gas support
5/9: new gas tests
6/9: ld support
7/9: new ld tests
8/9: ld testsuite fixes
9/9: readelf support
OK?
-Sandra