Re: contribute document?

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Jesse,

> > 1. Entering official release, need I contribute any document about
> > our chip, such as architecture and ISA besides source code? or, what
> > other resources should i offer?
>
> You don't need to supply architecture or ISA documentation for
> binutils ports.  The expectation is that this documentation can be
> located by programmers if they want to use your port.

Also note that a motivated engineer can probably deduce a lot of the ISA 
specification from the sources that you would be contributing. 
Therefore you should not contribute if you want to keep the ISA secret.

Also it is usually beneficial for an ISA to have a public ally 
accessible  Application Binary Interface specification so that compiler 
writers and assembler programmers know how to write routines that will 
be able to interact with each other.  Lack of an ABI specification can 
cause all sorts of problems if the ISA becomes popular.

Cheers
  Nick